vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2021-29949): Thunderbird vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jun 22, 2021
Added
Jun 23, 2021
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

When loading the shared library that provides the OTR protocol implementation, Thunderbird will initially attempt to open it using a filename that isn't distributed by Thunderbird. If a computer has already been infected with a malicious library of the alternative filename, and the malicious library has been copied to a directory that is contained in the search path for executable libraries, then Thunderbird will load the incorrect library. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 78.9.1.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-thunderbird

References

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