thunderbird vulnerabilities

24 January 2019

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

References

• CVE-2018-12389
• CVE-2018-12390
• CVE-2018-12392
• CVE-2018-12393
• CVE-2018-12405
• CVE-2018-17466
• CVE-2018-18492
• CVE-2018-18493
• CVE-2018-18494
• CVE-2018-18498