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MFSA2019-28 Thunderbird: Security vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 68 (CVE-2019-11720)

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MFSA2019-28 Thunderbird: Security vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 68 (CVE-2019-11720)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
07/23/2019
Created
09/12/2019
Added
09/11/2019
Modified
09/11/2019

Description

Some unicode characters are incorrectly treated as whitespace during the parsing of web content instead of triggering parsing errors. This allows malicious code to then be processed, evading cross-site scripting (XSS) filtering. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 68.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-thunderbird-upgrade-68_0

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