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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2016-5284): Thunderbird vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2016-5284): Thunderbird vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
09/22/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
09/22/2016
Modified
09/12/2020

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 49.0, Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.4, and Thunderbird < 45.4 rely on unintended expiration dates for Preloaded Public Key Pinning, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof add-on updates by leveraging possession of an X.509 server certificate for addons.mozilla.org signed by an arbitrary built-in Certification Authority.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-firefox
  • ubuntu-upgrade-thunderbird

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