Thunderbird vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 17.04
• Ubuntu 16.10
• Ubuntu 16.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 14.04 ESM

Packages

• 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
arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-5470, CVE-2017-5472,
CVE-2017-7749, CVE-2017-7750, CVE-2017-7751, CVE-2017-7752, CVE-2017-7754,
CVE-2017-7756, CVE-2017-7757, CVE-2017-7758, CVE-2017-7764)

Multiple security issues were discovered in the Graphite 2 library used
by 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, read uninitialized memory, or execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2017-7771, CVE-2017-7772, CVE-2017-7773, CVE-2017-7774, CVE-2017-7775,
CVE-2017-7776, CVE-2017-7777, CVE-2017-7778)