Ubuntu 22.10: 5972-1 Critical: Thunderbird Denial Of Service

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March 27, 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-2023-25152, CVE-2023-28162,

CVE-2023-28176)

Lukas Bernhard discovered that Thunderbird did not properly manage memory

when invalidating JIT code while following an iterator. An attacker could

potentially exploits this issue to cause a denial of service.

(CVE-2023-25751)

Luan Herrera discovered that Thunderbird did not properly manage

cross-origin iframe when dragging a URL. An attacker could potentially

exploit this issue to perform spoofing attacks. (CVE-2023-28164)

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service access issue ubuntu thunderbird

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 22.10:
  thunderbird                     1:102.9.0+build1-0ubuntu0.22.10.1

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS:
  thunderbird                     1:102.9.0+build1-0ubuntu0.22.04.1

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
  thunderbird                     1:102.9.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  thunderbird                     1:102.9.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

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