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Ubuntu 23.10 Moderate: USN-6717-1 ThunderBird Fixes for Security Issues

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Calendar Grey March 26, 2024
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Various vulnerabilities in Thunderbird patched with updates for Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04, and 23.10 LTS versions.
Several security issues were fixed in Thunderbird.

Summary

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubuntu 23.10 - Ubuntu 22.04 LTS - Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 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-2024-0743, CVE-2024-2611, CVE-2024-2614) Hubert Kario discovered that Thunderbird had a timing side-channel when performing RSA decryption. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to recover sensitive information. (CVE-2023-5388) Gary Kwong discovered that Thunderbird incorrectly updated return registers for JIT code on Armv7-A systems. An atta...

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Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 23.10: thunderbird 1:115.9.0+build1-0ubuntu0.23.10.1 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS: thunderbird 1:115.9.0+build1-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS: thunderbird 1:115.9.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6717-1

CVE-2023-5388, CVE-2024-0743, CVE-2024-2607, CVE-2024-2608,

CVE-2024-2610, CVE-2024-2611, CVE-2024-2612, CVE-2024-2614,

CVE-2024-2616

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6717-1

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:115.9.0+build1-0ubuntu0.23.10.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:115.9.0+build1-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:115.9.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1

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