7.5 - USN-3023-1

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - Ubuntu 15.10 - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary:

Several security issues were fixed in Thunderbird.

Software Description: - thunderbird: Mozilla Open Source mail and newsgroup client

Details:

It was discovered that NSPR incorrectly handled memory allocation. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted message, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-1951)

Christian Holler, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Tyson Smith, Timothy Nikkel, Sylvestre Ledru, Julian Seward, Olli Pettay, and Karl Tomlinson, discovered multiple memory safety issues in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted message, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-2818)

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
thunderbird 1:45.2.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

Ubuntu 15.10:
thunderbird 1:45.2.0+build1-0ubuntu0.15.10.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
thunderbird 1:45.2.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.3

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
thunderbird 1:45.2.0+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

After a standard system update you need to restart Thunderbird to make all the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3023-1
CVE-2016-1951, CVE-2016-2818

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:45.2.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:45.2.0+build1-0ubuntu0.15.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:45.2.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.3
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:45.2.0+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1