USN-4045-1

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    USN-4045-1

    Published: 1 Jul 2019Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026

    Summary: thunderbird vulnerabilities

    Details: A type confusion bug was discovered in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website in a browsing context, an attacker could exploit this by causing a denial of service, or executing arbirary code. (CVE-2019-11707) It was discovered that a sandboxed child process could open arbitrary web content in the parent process via the Prompt:Open IPC message. When combined with another vulnerability, an attacker could potentially exploit this to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-11708)

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4045-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-11707, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-11708

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: thunderbird

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/thunderbird@1:60.7.2+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1:60.7.2+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

    Affected versions

    1:38.3.0+build1-0ubuntu2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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