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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Security Update: Thunderbird Security Issues

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Calendar Grey September 9, 2024
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Recent updates for Ubuntu 22.04/20.04 LTS have resolved several vulnerabilities in Thunderbird. Discover the essential improvements and their implications.
Several security issues were fixed in Thunderbird.

Summary

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - 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-2024-7521, CVE-2024-7526, CVE-2024-7527, CVE-2024-7529, CVE-2024-8382) It was discovered that Thunderbird did not properly manage certain memory operations when processing graphics shared memory. An attacker could potentially exploit this issue to escape the sandbox. (CVE-2024-7519) Irvan Kurniawan discovered that Thunderbird did not properly check an attribute value in the editor component, le...

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Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS thunderbird 1:115.15.0+build1-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS thunderbird 1:115.15.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6995-1

CVE-2024-7519, CVE-2024-7521, CVE-2024-7522, CVE-2024-7525,

CVE-2024-7526, CVE-2024-7527, CVE-2024-7529, CVE-2024-8381,

CVE-2024-8382, CVE-2024-8384

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6995-1

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/1:115.15.0+build1-0ubuntu0.22.04.1

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