N/A - USN-3141-1

Executive Summary

Summary
Title	Thunderbird vulnerabilities

Informations
Name	USN-3141-1	First vendor Publication	2016-12-01
Vendor	Ubuntu	Last vendor Modification	2016-12-01
Severity (Vendor)	N/A	Revision	N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score	NA
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impact SubScore	NA	Temporal Score	NA
Exploitabality Sub Score	NA

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Detail

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

- Ubuntu 16.10 - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - 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:

Christian Holler, Jon Coppeard, Olli Pettay, Ehsan Akhgari, Gary Kwong, Tooru Fujisawa, and Randell Jesup 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-2016-5290)

A same-origin policy bypass was discovered with local HTML files in some circumstances. An attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2016-5291)

A heap buffer-overflow was discovered in Cairo when processing SVG content. 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-2016-5296)

An error was discovered in argument length checking in Javascript. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website in a browsing context, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5297)

A buffer overflow was discovered in nsScriptLoadHandler. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website in a browsing context, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-9066)

A use-after-free was discovered in SVG animations. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website in a browsing context, an attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-9079)

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 16.10:
thunderbird 1:45.5.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.10.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
thunderbird 1:45.5.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
thunderbird 1:45.5.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
thunderbird 1:45.5.1+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-3141-1
CVE-2016-5290, CVE-2016-5291, CVE-2016-5296, CVE-2016-5297,
CVE-2016-9066, CVE-2016-9079

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:45.5.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:45.5.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:45.5.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:45.5.1+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1