Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 17.04 / 17.10 : thunderbird vulnerabilities (USN-3490-1)
Critical Nessus Plugin ID 104995
Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
Description
Multiple security issues were discovered in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website in a browsing-like context, an attacker could potentially exploit these to bypass same-origin restrictions, cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-7826, CVE-2017-7828, CVE-2017-7830).
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Solution
Update the affected thunderbird package.