CVE-2021-38495

Publication date 3 November 2021

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Thunderbird 78.13.0. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 91.1 and Firefox ESR < 91.1.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
thunderbird	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.10 kinetic	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	21.10 impish	Not affected
	21.04 hirsute	Ignored
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 1:91.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 1:91.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.8 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)