CVE-2017-5398 Ubuntu Security Notification for Thunderbird Vulnerabilities (USN-3233-1)

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 bypass same origin restrictions, obtain sensitive information, cause a denial of service via application crash or hang, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-5398, CVE-2017-5400, CVE-2017-5401, CVE-2017-5402, CVE-2017-5404, CVE-2017-5405, CVE-2017-5407, CVE-2017-5408, CVE-2017-5410)

Refer to Ubuntu advisory USN-3233-1 for affected packages and patching details, or update with your package manager.

Patch:
Following are links for downloading patches to fix the vulnerabilities:

USN-3233-1: 14.04 (Kylin) on src (thunderbird)

USN-3233-1: 16.10 (Yakkety) on src (thunderbird)

USN-3233-1: 16.04 (Xenial) on src (thunderbird)

USN-3233-1: 12.04 (Precise) on src (thunderbird)