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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2016-5291): Thunderbird vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2016-5291): Thunderbird vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
11/15/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/19/2016
Modified
09/12/2020

Description

A same-origin policy bypass with local shortcut files to load arbitrary local content from disk. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 45.5, Firefox ESR < 45.5, and Firefox < 50.

Solution(s)

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

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