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Posted on 03 December 2020
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-4802-1 security@debian.org
https://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff
December 03, 2020 https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : thunderbird
CVE ID : CVE-2020-26970
Chiaki Ishikawa discovered a stack overflow in SMTP server status
handling which could potentially result in the execution of arbitrary
code.
For the stable distribution (buster), this problem has been fixed in
version 1:78.5.1-1~deb10u1.
We recommend that you upgrade your thunderbird packages.
For the detailed security status of thunderbird please refer to
its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/thunderbird
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
