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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: USN-4335-1 Severe: Thunderbird Security Issues

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Calendar Grey April 21, 2020
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Ubuntu Security Alert USN-4336-2 addresses vulnerabilities in Firefox and their remediation for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
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:

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,

obtain sensitive information, bypass security restrictions, bypass

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

execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-11757, CVE-2019-11758, CVE-2019-11759,

CVE-2019-11760, CVE-2019-11761, CVE-2019-11762, CVE-2019-11763,

CVE-2019-11764, CVE-2019-17005, CVE-2019-17008, CVE-2019-17010,

CVE-2019-17011, CVE-2019-17012, CVE-2019-17016, CVE-2019-17017,

CVE-2019-17022, CVE-2019-17024, CVE-2019-17026, CVE-2019-20503,

CVE-2020-6798, CVE-2020-6800, CVE-2020-6805, CVE-2020-6806, CVE-2020-6807,

CVE-2020-6812, CVE-2020-6814, CVE-2020-6819, CVE-2020-6820, CVE-2020...

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Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service code execution remote attack Ubuntu sensitive information Thunderbird

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  thunderbird                     1:68.7.0+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-4335-1

CVE-2019-11745, CVE-2019-11755, CVE-2019-11757, CVE-2019-11758,

CVE-2019-11759, CVE-2019-11760, CVE-2019-11761, CVE-2019-11762,

CVE-2019-11763, CVE-2019-11764, CVE-2019-15903, CVE-2019-17005,

CVE-2019-17008, CVE-2019-17010, CVE-2019-17011, CVE-2019-17012,

CVE-2019-17016, CVE-2019-17017, CVE-2019-17022, CVE-2019-17024,

CVE-2019-17026, CVE-2019-20503, CVE-2020-6792, CVE-2020-6793,

CVE-2020-6794, CVE-2020-6795, CVE-2020-6798, CVE-2020-6800,

CVE-2020-6805, CVE-2020-6806, CVE-2020-6807, CVE-2020-6811,

CVE-2020-6812, CVE-2020-6814, CVE-2020-6819, CVE-2020-6820,

CVE-2020-6821, CVE-2020-6822, CVE-2020-6825

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April 21, 2020

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service code execution remote attack Ubuntu sensitive information Thunderbird

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:68.7.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.2

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