Vulnerabilities / CVE-2019-11705

critical

CVE-2019-11705

libical: Stack buffer overflow in icalrecur_add_bydayrules in icalrecur.c

Published Modified CWE 787
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD, Amazon. Rated lower by Red Hat (high), Oracle (high), Ubuntu (medium).

Description

A flaw in Thunderbird's implementation of iCal causes a stack buffer overflow in icalrecur_add_bydayrules when processing certain email messages, resulting in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 60.7.1.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
amazon linux 2thunderbird, thunderbird-debuginfo60.7.2-2.amzn2.0.1
debian 11thunderbird1:60.7.1-1
debian 12thunderbird1:60.7.1-1
debian 13thunderbird1:60.7.1-1
debian 14thunderbird1:60.7.1-1
debian 8thunderbird1:60.7.1-1~deb8u1
debian 9thunderbird1:60.7.1-1~deb9u1
echothunderbird1:60.7.1-1
Oracle Linux 6thunderbird60.7.2-2.0.1.el6_10
Oracle Linux 7thunderbird60.7.2-2.0.1.el7_6
Oracle Linux 8thunderbird60.7.2-2.0.1.el8_0
Red Hatlibical, libical-develno fix listed
Show all 18 entries from 16 sources
SourcePackageFixed in
amazon linux 2thunderbird60.7.2-2.amzn2.0.1
amazon linux 2thunderbird-debuginfo60.7.2-2.amzn2.0.1
debian 11thunderbird1:60.7.1-1
debian 12thunderbird1:60.7.1-1
debian 13thunderbird1:60.7.1-1
debian 14thunderbird1:60.7.1-1
debian 8thunderbird1:60.7.1-1~deb8u1
debian 9thunderbird1:60.7.1-1~deb9u1
echothunderbird1:60.7.1-1
Oracle Linux 6thunderbird60.7.2-2.0.1.el6_10
Oracle Linux 7thunderbird60.7.2-2.0.1.el7_6
Oracle Linux 8thunderbird60.7.2-2.0.1.el8_0
Red Hatlibicalno fix listed
Red Hatlibical-develno fix listed
ubuntu 16.04thunderbird1:60.7.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
ubuntu 18.04thunderbird1:60.7.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
ubuntu 18.10thunderbird1:60.7.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.10.1
ubuntu 19.04thunderbird1:60.7.1+build1-0ubuntu0.19.04.1

References

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