Executive Summary

Summary
Title Thunderbird vulnerabilities
Informations
Name USN-3416-1 First vendor Publication 2017-09-14
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2017-09-14
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

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Cvss Impact Score N/A Attack Complexity N/A
Cvss Expoit Score N/A Authentication N/A
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Detail

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

- Ubuntu 17.04 - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary:

Several security issues were fixed in Thunderbird.

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

Details:

Multiple security issues were discovered in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website in a browsing context, an attacker could potentially exploit these to bypass same-origin restrictions, bypass CSP restrictions, obtain sensitive information, spoof the origin of modal alerts, cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-7753, CVE-2017-7779, CVE-2017-7784, CVE-2017-7785, CVE-2017-7787, CVE-2017-7791, CVE-2017-7792, CVE-2017-7800, CVE-2017-7801, CVE-2017-7802, CVE-2017-7803, CVE-2017-7807, CVE-2017-7809)

A buffer overflow was discovered when displaying SVG content in some circumstances. 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-2017-7786)

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 17.04:
thunderbird 1:52.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.17.04.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
thunderbird 1:52.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
thunderbird 1:52.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

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

References:
https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3416-1
CVE-2017-7753, CVE-2017-7779, CVE-2017-7784, CVE-2017-7785,
CVE-2017-7786, CVE-2017-7787, CVE-2017-7791, CVE-2017-7792,
CVE-2017-7800, CVE-2017-7801, CVE-2017-7802, CVE-2017-7803,
CVE-2017-7807, CVE-2017-7809

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:52.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.17.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:52.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:52.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3416-1

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Date Informations
2017-09-16 13:25:28
  • Multiple Updates
2017-09-15 05:21:36
  • First insertion