========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3490-1 December 01, 2017
thunderbird vulnerabilities ========================================================================== 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
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