USN-4045-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities
USN-4045-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities thunderbird vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 19.04 Ubuntu 18.10 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Summary Several security issues were fixed in Thunderbird. Software Description thunderbird – Mozilla Open Source mail and newsgroup client Details A type confusion bug was discovered in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website in a browsing context, an attacker could exploit this by causing a denial of service, or executing arbirary code. (CVE-2019-11707) It was discovered that a sandboxed child process could open arbitrary web content in the parent process via the Prompt:Open IPC message. When combined with another vulnerability, an attacker could potentially exploit this to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-11708) Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: [ more… ]