USN-3278-1

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    USN-3278-1

    Published: 16 May 2017Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026

    Summary: thunderbird vulnerabilities

    Details: 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)

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3278-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10195, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10196, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10197, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5429, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5430, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5432, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5433, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5434, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5435, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5436, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5437, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5438, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5439, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5440, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5441, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5442, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5443, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5444, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5445, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5446, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5447, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5449, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5451, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5454, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5459, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5460, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5461, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5462, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5464, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5465, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5466, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5467, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5469

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: thunderbird

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/thunderbird@1:52.1.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1:52.1.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

    Affected versions

    1:24.0+build1-0ubuntu1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High