Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package thunderbird  (opens in a new tab)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-UBUNTU1604-THUNDERBIRD-1319410
  • published15 Jul 2021
  • disclosed5 Aug 2021

Introduced: 15 Jul 2021

CVE-2021-29972  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.

NVD Description

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

A use-after-free vulnerability was found via testing, and traced to an out-of-date Cairo library. Updating the library resolved the issue, and may have remediated other, unknown security vulnerabilities as well. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 90.