USN-3868-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 18.10
• Ubuntu 18.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 16.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 14.04 ESM

Packages

• 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

• thunderbird - 1:60.4.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

Ubuntu 16.04

• thunderbird - 1:60.4.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

Ubuntu 14.04

• thunderbird - 1:60.4.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

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

Related notices

• USN-3801-1
• USN-3844-1