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Ubuntu 19.04 LTS Security Notice USN-4064-1: ThunderBird Security Issues

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Calendar Grey July 17, 2019
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Various vulnerabilities within Thunderbird have been addressed in Ubuntu, impacting numerous versions. Users are advised to perform updates.
Several security issues were fixed in Thunderbird.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in Thunderbird.

Software Description:

- thunderbird: Mozilla Open Source mail and newsgroup client

Details:

A sandbox escape was discovered in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to

installing a malicious language pack, an attacker could exploit this to

gain additional privileges. (CVE-2019-9811)

Multiple security issues were discovered in Thunderbird. If a user were

tricked in to opening a specially crafted website in a browsing context,

an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service,

bypass same origin restrictions, conduct cross-site scripting (XSS)

attacks, spoof origin attributes, or execute arbitrary code.

(CVE-2019-11709, CVE-2019-11711, CVE-2019-11712, CVE-2019-11713,

CVE-2019-11715, CVE-2019-11717)

It was discovered that NSS incorrectly handled importing certain

curve25519 private keys. An attacker could exploit this issue to cause

Thunderbird to crash, resulting in a denial of servi...

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Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 19.04:
  thunderbird                     1:60.8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.19.04.1

Ubuntu 18.10:
  thunderbird                     1:60.8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.10.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  thunderbird                     1:60.8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  thunderbird                     1:60.8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.2

After a standard system update you need to restart Thunderbird to make
all the necessary changes.

References

  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4064-1

  CVE-2019-11709, CVE-2019-11711, CVE-2019-11712, CVE-2019-11713,

  CVE-2019-11715, CVE-2019-11717, CVE-2019-11719, CVE-2019-11729,

  CVE-2019-11730, CVE-2019-9811

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Package Information

 
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:60.8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.19.04.1
 
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:60.8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.10.1
 
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:60.8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
 

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