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Ubuntu: 5824-1 Critical: Thunderbird Denial Of Service Risks

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Calendar Grey February 6, 2023
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Explore Ubuntu USN-5824-1, addressing essential Thunderbird vulnerabilities with critical patches for heightened security and data protection measures
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,

obtain sensitive information, bypass security restrictions, cross-site

tracing, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-45403, CVE-2022-45404,

CVE-2022-45405, CVE-2022-45406, CVE-2022-45408, CVE-2022-45409,

CVE-2022-45410, CVE-2022-45411, CVE-2022-45418, CVE-2022-45420,

CVE-2022-45421, CVE-2022-46878, CVE-2022-46880, CVE-2022-46881,

CVE-2022-46882, CVE-2023-23605)

Armin Ebert discovered that Thunderbird did not properly manage memory

while resolving file symlink. If a user were tricked into opening a

specially crafted weblink, an attacker could potentially exploit these to

cause a denial of service. (CVE-2022-45412)

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Topics Covered

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

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 22.10:
  thunderbird                     1:102.7.1+build2-0ubuntu0.22.10.1

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS:
  thunderbird                     1:102.7.1+build2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
  thunderbird                     1:102.7.1+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  thunderbird                     1:102.7.1+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5824-1

CVE-2022-45403, CVE-2022-45404, CVE-2022-45405, CVE-2022-45406,

CVE-2022-45408, CVE-2022-45409, CVE-2022-45410, CVE-2022-45411,

CVE-2022-45412, CVE-2022-45414, CVE-2022-45416, CVE-2022-45418,

CVE-2022-45420, CVE-2022-45421, CVE-2022-46871, CVE-2022-46872,

CVE-2022-46874, CVE-2022-46877, CVE-2022-46878, CVE-2022-46880,

CVE-2022-46881, CVE-2022-46882, CVE-2023-0430, CVE-2023-23598,

CVE-2023-23599, CVE-2023-23601, CVE-2023-23602, CVE-2023-23603,

CVE-2023-23605

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February 06, 2023

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Topics Covered

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

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:102.7.1+build2-0ubuntu0.22.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:102.7.1+build2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:102.7.1+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:102.7.1+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

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