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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

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-2024-2609, 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. A...

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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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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6750-1

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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