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Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple vulnerabilities — GLSA 202007-09

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

Affected packages

Package mail-client/thunderbird on all architectures
Affected versions < 68.10.0
Unaffected versions >= 68.10.0
Package mail-client/thunderbird-bin on all architectures
Affected versions < 68.10.0
Unaffected versions >= 68.10.0

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-68.10.0"

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

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose
 ">=mail-client/thunderbird-bin-68.10.0"

References

Release date
July 26, 2020

Latest revision
July 26, 2020: 1

Severity
normal

Exploitable
remote

Bugzilla entries