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Ubuntu 23.10 USN-6750-1 Critical: Thunderbird Denial Of Service Issues

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Calendar Grey April 25, 2024
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Several Ubuntu versions have been updated with essential security patches for Thunderbird, tackling a range of critical vulnerabilities promptly.
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-2024-2609, CVE-2024-3852,

CVE-2024-3864)

Bartek Nowotarski discovered that Thunderbird did not properly limit HTTP/2

CONTINUATION frames. An attacker could potentially exploit this issue to

cause a denial of service. (CVE-2024-3302)

Lukas Bernhard discovered that Thunderbird did not properly manage memory

during JIT optimisations, leading to an out-of-bounds read vulnerability.

An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or

expose sensitive information. (CVE-2024-3854)

Lukas Bernhard d...

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Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 23.10:
  thunderbird                     1:115.10.1+build1-0ubuntu0.23.10.1

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS:
  thunderbird                     1:115.10.1+build1-0ubuntu0.22.04.1

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
  thunderbird                     1:115.10.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6750-1

CVE-2024-2609, CVE-2024-3302, CVE-2024-3852, CVE-2024-3854,

CVE-2024-3857, CVE-2024-3859, CVE-2024-3861, CVE-2024-3864

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Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:115.10.1+build1-0ubuntu0.23.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:115.10.1+build1-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:115.10.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1

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