Advisories » MGASA-2016-0115

Updated thunderbird packages fix security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 16 Mar 2016
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5
CVE: 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

Description

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 it
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).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18006
• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-16/
• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-17/
• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-20/
• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-23/
• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-24/
• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-27/
• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-31/
• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-34/
• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-37/
• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/thunderbird/
• https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0460.html
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1952
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1954
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1957
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1960
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1961
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1964
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1966
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1974
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1977
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2790
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2791
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2792
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2793
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2794
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2795
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2796
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2797
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2798
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2799
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2800
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2801
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2802

SRPMS

5/core

• thunderbird-38.7.0-1.mga5
• thunderbird-l10n-38.7.0-1.mga5