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Unscored USN-3278-1 33 CVEs

thunderbird vulnerabilities

Published May 16, 2017 · Updated Oct 27, 2026

Summary

Multiple security issues were discovered in Thunderbird. If a user were
tricked in to opening a specially crafted message, an attacker could
potentially exploit these to read uninitialized memory, cause a denial of
service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-5429,
CVE-2017-5430, CVE-2017-5436, CVE-2017-5443, CVE-2017-5444, CVE-2017-5445,
CVE-2017-5446, CVE-2017-5447, CVE-2017-5461, CVE-2017-5467)

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 spoof the addressbar
contents, conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, cause a denial of
service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-5432,
CVE-2017-5433, CVE-2017-5434, CVE-2017-5435, CVE-2017-5437, CVE-2017-5438,
CVE-2017-5439, CVE-2017-5440, CVE-2017-5441, CVE-2017-5442, CVE-2017-5449,
CVE-2017-5451, CVE-2017-5454, CVE-2017-5459, CVE-2017-5460, CVE-2017-5464,
CVE-2017-5465, CVE-2017-5466, CVE-2017-5469, CVE-2016-10195,
CVE-2016-10196, CVE-2016-10197)

A flaw was discovered in the DRBG number generation in NSS. If an
attacker were able to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack, this flaw
could potentially be exploited to view sensitive information.
(CVE-2017-5462)

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS thunderbird 1:52.1.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
Ubuntu · 16.04 LTS 16.04:LTS thunderbird 1:52.1.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

Vulnerabilities 33

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10195
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10196
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10197
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5429
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5430
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5432
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5433
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5434
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5435
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5436
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5437
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5438
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5439
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5440
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5441
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5442
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5443
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5444
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5445
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5446
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5447
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5449
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5451
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5454
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5459
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5460
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5461
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5462
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5464
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5465
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5466
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5467
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5469