Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird RHSA-2017:3372

Description

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client. This update upgrades Thunderbird to version 52.5.0. 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-2017-7826, CVE-2017-7828, CVE-2017-7830) Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Christian Holler, David Keeler, Jon Coppeard, Julien Cristau, Jan de Mooij, Jason Kratzer, Philipp, Nicholas Nethercote, Oriol Brufau, Andr Bargull, Bob Clary, Jet Villegas, Randell Jesup, Tyson Smith, Gary Kwong, Ryan VanderMeulen, Nils, and Jun Kokatsu as the original reporters.

Affected Applications

Thunderbird

CVE References

CVE-2017-7826 CVE-2017-7828 CVE-2017-7830

Other References

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3372