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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2020-12398: Vulnerability in Thunderbird

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2020-12398: Vulnerability in Thunderbird

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
07/09/2020
Created
01/20/2021
Added
01/19/2021
Modified
02/17/2022

Description

If Thunderbird is configured to use STARTTLS for an IMAP server, and the server sends a PREAUTH response, then Thunderbird will continue with an unencrypted connection, causing email data to be sent without protection. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.9.0.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-mail-thunderbird-68-9-0-11-4-23-0-1-69-3
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-mail-thunderbird-plugin-thunderbird-lightning-68-9-0-11-4-23-0-1-69-3

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