Ubuntu 22.10 USN-5943-1 Moderate: Thunderbird Multiple Issues

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March 13, 2023

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-2023-0616, CVE-2023-25735,

CVE-2023-25737, CVE-2023-25739, CVE-2023-25729, CVE-2023-25742,

CVE-2023-25746)

Johan Carlsson discovered that Thunderbird did not properly implement CSP

policy on a header when using iframes. An attacker could potentially

exploits this to exfiltrate data. (CVE-2023-25728)

Irvan Kurniawan discovered that Thunderbird was not properly handling

background fullscreen scripts when the window goes into fullscreen mode.

An attacker could possibly use this issue to spoof ...

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service code execution memory corruption Ubuntu information disclosure Thunderbird

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 22.10:
  thunderbird                     1:102.8.0+build2-0ubuntu0.22.10.1

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS:
  thunderbird                     1:102.8.0+build2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
  thunderbird                     1:102.8.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  thunderbird                     1:102.8.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

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