Packages
- thunderbird - Mozilla Open Source mail and newsgroup client
Details
Christian Holler, Carsten Book, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Andrew
McCreight, and Phil Ringnalda 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-2016-2836)
Christian Holler, Carsten Book, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Andrew
McCreight, and Phil Ringnalda 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-2016-2836)
Update instructions
After a standard system update you need to restart Thunderbird to make all the necessary changes.
Learn more about how to get the fixes.The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
| Ubuntu Release | Package Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 16.04 xenial | thunderbird – 1:45.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.2 | ||
| 14.04 trusty | thunderbird – 1:45.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.4 | ||
| 12.04 precise | thunderbird – 1:45.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 | ||
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