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Gentoo: 202210-35 High Severity: Thunderbird Code Execution Risks

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Calendar Grey October 31, 2022
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Gentoo Advisory GLSA 202210-36 highlights several critical vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox prompting urgent action from users.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Mozilla Thunderbird, the worst of which could result in arbitrary code execution.

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mozilla Thunderbird. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo high severity software update code execution arbitrary code Mozilla Thunderbird

Resolution

All Mozilla Thunderbird users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=mail-client/thunderbird-102.4.0"
All Mozilla Thunderbird binary users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=mail-client/thunderbird-bin-102.4.0"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2022-39236 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-39236 [ 2 ] CVE-2022-39249 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-39249 [ 3 ] CVE-2022-39250 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-39250 [ 4 ] CVE-2022-39251 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-39251 [ 5 ] CVE-2022-42927 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-42927 [ 6 ] CVE-2022-42928 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-42928 [ 7 ] CVE-2022-42929 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-42929 [ 8 ] CVE-2022-42932 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-42932

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-35
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: High
Title: Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple Vulnerabilities
Date: October 31, 2022
Bugs: #873667, #878315
ID: 202210-35

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo high severity software update code execution arbitrary code Mozilla Thunderbird

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Mozilla Thunderbird, the worst of which could result in arbitrary code execution.

Background

Mozilla Thunderbird is a popular open-source email client from the Mozilla project.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 mail-client/thunderbird < 102.4.0 >= 102.4.0 2 mail-client/thunderbird-bin < 102.4.0 >= 102.4.0

Impact

===== Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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