USN-6214-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 23.04
• Ubuntu 22.10
• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Packages

• thunderbird - Mozilla Open Source mail and newsgroup client

Details

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-2023-34414, CVE-2023-34416,
CVE-2023-37201, CVE-2023-37202, CVE-2023-37207, CVE-2023-37211)

P Umar Farooq discovered that Thunderbird did not properly provide warning
when opening Diagcab files. If a user were tricked into opening a
malicicous Diagcab file, an attacker could execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2023-37208)

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 23.04

• thunderbird - 1:102.13.0+build1-0ubuntu0.23.04.1

Ubuntu 22.10

• thunderbird - 1:102.13.0+build1-0ubuntu0.22.10.1

Ubuntu 22.04

• thunderbird - 1:102.13.0+build1-0ubuntu0.22.04.1

Ubuntu 20.04

• thunderbird - 1:102.13.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2023-37211
• CVE-2023-37201
• CVE-2023-37207
• CVE-2023-34416
• CVE-2023-37208
• CVE-2023-34414
• CVE-2023-37202

Related notices

• USN-6201-1
• USN-6227-1
• USN-6143-1
• USN-6147-1