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:

Ubuntu 19.04: thunderbird – 1:60.7.2+build2-0ubuntu0.19.04.1
Ubuntu 18.10: thunderbird – 1:60.7.2+build2-0ubuntu0.18.10.1
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: thunderbird – 1:60.7.2+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: thunderbird – 1:60.7.2+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

After a standard system update you need to restart Thunderbird to make
all the necessary changes.

References

Source: USN-4045-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities

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