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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2021-29948): Thunderbird vulnerabilities

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Apr 27, 2021
Added
Jun 23, 2021
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

Signatures are written to disk before and read during verification, which might be subject to a race condition when a malicious local process or user is replacing the file. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 78.10.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-thunderbird

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