Improper Access Control The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package thunderbird  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1204-THUNDERBIRD-620675
  • published22 Sept 2016
  • disclosed22 Sept 2016

Introduced: 22 Sep 2016

CVE-2016-5273  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream thunderbird package and not the thunderbird package as distributed by Ubuntu.

The mozilla::a11y::HyperTextAccessible::GetChildOffset function in the accessibility implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 49.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted web site.