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USN-3897-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities thunderbird vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 18.10 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Summary Several security issues were fixed in Thunderbird. Software Description thunderbird – Mozilla Open Source mail and newsgroup client Details A use-after-free was discovered in libical. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted ICS calendar file, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2016-5824) Multiple security issues were discovered in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted message, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-18356, CVE-2018-18500, CVE-2019-5785) Multiple security issues were discovered in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website in a browsing [ more… ]

USN-3896-1: Firefox vulnerabilities firefox vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 18.10 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Summary Firefox could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a malicious website. Software Description firefox – Mozilla Open Source web browser Details Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service, bypass same origin protections, or execute arbitrary code. Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 18.10 firefox – 65.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.18.10.1 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS firefox – 65.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS firefox – 65.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS firefox – 65.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 To update your system, please follow [ more… ]