Ubuntu Security Update USN-6903-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities

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Multiple security issues were discovered in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted website in a browsing context, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service, obtain sensitive information, bypass security restrictions, cross-site tracing, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2024-6600, CVE-2024-6601, CVE-2024-6604) Ronald Crane discovered that Thunderbird did not properly manage certain memory operations in the NSS. An attacker could potentially exploit this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2024-6602) Irvan Kurniawan discovered that Thunderbird did not properly manage memory during thread creation. An attacker could potentially exploit this issue to cause a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2024-6603)

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