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USN-3868-1: 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 Multiple security issues were discovered in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website in a browsing context, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service, bypass same-origin restrictions, or execute arbitrary code. Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 18.10 thunderbird – 1:60.4.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.10.1 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS thunderbird – 1:60.4.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS thunderbird – 1:60.4.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS thunderbird – 1:60.4.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades. After a standard [ more… ]