USN-3321-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3321-1

5th July, 2017

thunderbird vulnerabilities

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

• Ubuntu 17.04



• Ubuntu 16.10



• 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 cause a denial of service,
read uninitialized memory, obtain sensitive information or execute
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After a standard system update you need to restart Thunderbird to make
all the necessary changes.

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CVE-2017-7778