Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple vulnerabilities — GLSA 201908-20

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Mozilla Thunderbird, the worst of which could result in the arbitrary execution of code.

Affected packages

mail-client/thunderbird on all architectures
Affected versions < 60.8.0
Unaffected versions >= 60.8.0
mail-client/thunderbird-bin on all architectures
Affected versions < 60.8.0
Unaffected versions >= 60.8.0

Background

Mozilla Thunderbird is a popular open-source email client from the Mozilla project

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mozilla Thunderbird. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Mozilla Thunderbird users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=mail-client/thunderbird-60.8.0"
 

All Mozilla Thunderbird binary users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose
 ">=mail-client/thunderbird-bin-60.8.0"
 

References

Release date
August 16, 2019

Latest revision
August 16, 2019: 1

Severity
normal

Exploitable
remote

Bugzilla entries