N/A - USN-3490-1

Executive Summary

Summary
Title	Thunderbird vulnerabilities

Informations
Name	USN-3490-1	First vendor Publication	2017-12-01
Vendor	Ubuntu	Last vendor Modification	2017-12-01
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

Cvss vector :
Cvss Base Score	N/A	Attack Range	N/A
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 17.10 - 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-like context, an attacker could potentially exploit these to bypass same-origin restrictions, cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-7826, CVE-2017-7828, CVE-2017-7830)

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 17.10:
thunderbird 1:52.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.17.10.1

Ubuntu 17.04:
thunderbird 1:52.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.17.04.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
thunderbird 1:52.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
thunderbird 1:52.5.0+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-3490-1
CVE-2017-7826, CVE-2017-7828, CVE-2017-7830

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:52.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.17.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:52.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.17.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:52.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:52.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1