Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird RHSA-2016:0460

Description

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client. Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Thunderbird to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2016-1952, CVE-2016-1954, CVE-2016-1957, CVE-2016-1960, CVE-2016-1961, CVE-2016-1974, CVE-2016-1964, CVE-2016-1966) Multiple security flaws were found in the graphite2 font library shipped with Thunderbird. A web page containing malicious content could cause Thunderbird to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2016-1977, CVE-2016-2790, CVE-2016-2791, CVE-2016-2792, CVE-2016-2793, CVE-2016-2794, CVE-2016-2795, CVE-2016-2796, CVE-2016-2797, CVE-2016-2798, CVE-2016-2799, CVE-2016-2800, CVE-2016-2801, CVE-2016-2802) Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Bob Clary, Christoph Diehl, Christian Holler, Andrew McCreight, Daniel Holbert, Jesse Ruderman, Randell Jesup, Nicolas Golubovic, Jose Martinez, Romina Santillan, ca0nguyen, lokihardt, Nicolas Grgoire, the Communications Electronics Security Group (UK) of the GCHQ, Holger Fuhrmannek, Ronald Crane, and Tyson Smith as the original reporters of these issues. For technical details regarding these flaws, refer to the Mozilla security advisories for Thunderbird 38.7.0. You can find a link to the Mozilla advisories in the References section of this erratum. All Thunderbird users should upgrade to this updated package, which contains Thunderbird version 38.7.0, which corrects these issues. After installing the update, Thunderbird must be restarted for the changes to take effect.

Affected Applications

Thunderbird

CVE References

CVE-2016-1952 CVE-2016-1954 CVE-2016-1957 CVE-2016-1960 CVE-2016-1961 CVE-2016-1964 CVE-2016-1966 CVE-2016-1974 CVE-2016-1977 CVE-2016-2790 CVE-2016-2791 CVE-2016-2792 CVE-2016-2793 CVE-2016-2794 CVE-2016-2795 CVE-2016-2796 CVE-2016-2797 CVE-2016-2798 CVE-2016-2799 CVE-2016-2800 CVE-2016-2801 CVE-2016-2802

Other References

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0460.html