Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird RHSA-2017:1561

Description

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client. This update upgrades Thunderbird to version 52.2.0. Security Fix(es): * Multiple 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-2017-5470, CVE-2017-5472, CVE-2017-7749, CVE-2017-7750, CVE-2017-7751, CVE-2017-7756, CVE-2017-7771, CVE-2017-7772, CVE-2017-7773, CVE-2017-7774, CVE-2017-7775, CVE-2017-7776, CVE-2017-7777, CVE-2017-7778, CVE-2017-7752, CVE-2017-7754, CVE-2017-7757, CVE-2017-7758, CVE-2017-7764) Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Nils, Nicolas Trippar (Zimperium zLabs), Tyson Smith, Mats Palmgren, Philipp, Masayuki Nakano, Christian Holler, Andrew McCreight, Gary Kwong, Andr Bargull, Carsten Book, Jesse Schwartzentruber, Julian Hector, Marcia Knous, Ronald Crane, Samuel Erb, Holger Fuhrmannek, Abhishek Arya, and F. Alonso (revskills) as the original reporters.

Affected Applications

Thunderbird

CVE References

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 CVE-2017-7771 CVE-2017-7772 CVE-2017-7773 CVE-2017-7774 CVE-2017-7775 CVE-2017-7776 CVE-2017-7777 CVE-2017-7778

Other References

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1561