Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Mozilla Thunderbird, the worst of which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
Package | mail-client/thunderbird on all architectures |
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Affected versions | < 45.7.0 |
Unaffected versions | >= 45.7.0 |
Package | mail-client/thunderbird-bin on all architectures |
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Affected versions | < 45.7.0 |
Unaffected versions | >= 45.7.0 |
Mozilla Thunderbird is a popular open-source email client from the Mozilla project.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mozilla Thunderbird. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
A remote attacker, by enticing a user to open a specially crafted email or web page, could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or cause a Denial of Service condition.
There is no known workaround at this time.
All Mozilla Thunderbird users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=mail-client/thunderbird-45.7.0"
All Mozilla Thunderbird binary users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=mail-client/thunderbird-bin-45.7.0"
Release date
February 20, 2017
Latest revision
February 20, 2017: 1
Severity
high
Exploitable
remote
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