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Ubuntu 21.10: USN-5152-1 Moderate: Thunderbird Security Issues

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Calendar Grey November 18, 2021
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Updating Thunderbird on Ubuntu 21.10 is crucial to fix security vulnerabilities. Use the terminal or Software Updater to keep your application safe.
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 into opening a specially crafted website in a browsing context, an

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

bypass security restrictions, spoof the UI, confuse the user, conduct

phishing attacks, or execute arbitrary code.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service arbitrary code execution Ubuntu phishing thunderbird UI spoofing

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 21.10:
  thunderbird                     1:91.3.1+build1-0ubuntu0.21.10.1

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5152-1

CVE-2021-38503, CVE-2021-38504, CVE-2021-38506, CVE-2021-38507,

CVE-2021-38509

November 18, 2021

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service arbitrary code execution Ubuntu phishing thunderbird UI spoofing

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:91.3.1+build1-0ubuntu0.21.10.1

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