Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package thunderbird  (opens in a new tab)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-UBUNTU2004-THUNDERBIRD-579302
  • published27 Jan 2017
  • disclosed27 Jan 2017

Introduced: 27 Jan 2017

CVE-2016-5824  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.04.

NVD Description

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

libical 1.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free) via a crafted ics file.