USN-5168-2: Thunderbird vulnerability

1 December 2021

Thunderbird could be made to crash or run programs if it verified a specially crafted signature.

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Releases

Packages

  • thunderbird - Mozilla Open Source mail and newsgroup client

Details

Tavis Ormandy discovered that NSS, included with Thunderbird, incorrectly
handled verifying DSA/RSA-PSS signatures. A remote attacker could use this
issue to cause Thunderbird to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or
possibly execute arbitrary code.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 21.10
Ubuntu 21.04
Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 18.04

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

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