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Mageia 6: MGASA-2019-0069 Critical: Thunderbird Memory Safety Fixes

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Calendar Grey February 13, 2019
Dist Mageia Esm H88
The latest Thunderbird patch MGASA-2019-0069 resolves critical memory safety and privilege elevation vulnerabilities, providing significant enhancements.
Use-after-free parsing HTML5 stream

Summary

Use-after-free parsing HTML5 stream. (CVE-2018-18500)
Privilege escalation through IPC channel messages. (CVE-2018-18505)
Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 65, Firefox ESR 60.5, and Thunderbird 60.5. (CVE-2018-18501)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24280

- https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/60.5.0/releasenotes/

- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-03/

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-18500

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-18501

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-18505

Resolution

SRPMS

- 6/core/thunderbird-60.5.0-1.mga6

- 6/core/thunderbird-l10n-60.5.0-1.mga6

Severity
critical
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Critical

Publication date: 13 Feb 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0069.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2018-18500, CVE-2018-18501, CVE-2018-18505

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