thunderbird vulnerabilities
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
Several security issues were fixed in Thunderbird.
Software Description
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, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2020-6831, CVE-2020-12387, CVE-2020-12395)
It was discovered that the Devtools’ ‘Copy as cURL’ feature did not properly escape the HTTP POST data of a request. If a user were tricked in to using the ‘Copy as cURL’ feature to copy and paste a command with specially crafted data in to a terminal, an attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain sensitive information from local files. (CVE-2020-12392)
It was discovered that Thunderbird did not correctly handle Unicode whitespace characters within the From email header. An attacker could potentially exploit this to spoof the sender email address that Thunderbird displays. (CVE-2020-12397)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
thunderbird - 1:68.8.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.2
Ubuntu 19.10
thunderbird - 1:68.8.0+build2-0ubuntu0.19.10.2
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
thunderbird - 1:68.8.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.2
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
thunderbird - 1:68.8.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.2
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.
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 19.10
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Several security issues were fixed in Thunderbird.
Software Description
- thunderbird - Mozilla Open Source mail and newsgroup client
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, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2020-6831, CVE-2020-12387, CVE-2020-12395)
It was discovered that the Devtools’ ‘Copy as cURL’ feature did not properly escape the HTTP POST data of a request. If a user were tricked in to using the ‘Copy as cURL’ feature to copy and paste a command with specially crafted data in to a terminal, an attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain sensitive information from local files. (CVE-2020-12392)
It was discovered that Thunderbird did not correctly handle Unicode whitespace characters within the From email header. An attacker could potentially exploit this to spoof the sender email address that Thunderbird displays. (CVE-2020-12397)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
thunderbird - 1:68.8.0+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.2
Ubuntu 19.10
thunderbird - 1:68.8.0+build2-0ubuntu0.19.10.2
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
thunderbird - 1:68.8.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.2
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
thunderbird - 1:68.8.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.2
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
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