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Ubuntu: USN-4701-1 (CVE-2020-26970): Thunderbird vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4701-1 (CVE-2020-26970): Thunderbird vulnerabilities

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
12/09/2020
Created
01/22/2021
Added
01/21/2021
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

When reading SMTP server status codes, Thunderbird writes an integer value to a position on the stack that is intended to contain just one byte. Depending on processor architecture and stack layout, this leads to stack corruption that may be exploitable. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 78.5.1.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-thunderbird

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