CWE
79
Advisory Published

USN-4150-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities

First published: Tue Oct 08 2019(Updated: )

It was discovered that encrypted S/MIME parts in a multipart message can leak plaintext contents when included in a HTML reply or forward in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to replying to or forwarding a specially crafted message, an attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2019-11739) 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 obtain sensitive information, conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attack, scause a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-11740, CVE-2019-11742, CVE-2019-11743, CVE-2019-11744, CVE-2019-11746, CVE-2019-11752)

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
All of
ubuntu/thunderbird<1:60.9.0+build1-0ubuntu0.19.04.1
1:60.9.0+build1-0ubuntu0.19.04.1
Ubuntu Ubuntu=19.04
All of
ubuntu/thunderbird<1:60.9.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
1:60.9.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
Ubuntu Ubuntu=18.04
All of
ubuntu/thunderbird<1:60.9.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.2
1:60.9.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.2
Ubuntu Ubuntu=16.04

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