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Mageia: 2020-0396 Critical: Thunderbird Memory Safety Issues

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Calendar Grey October 24, 2020
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Recent updates to the Thunderbird software address the vulnerabilities represented by CVE-2020-15683 and CVE-2020-15969 on the Mageia platform.
Memory safety bugs fixed in Thunderbird 78.4

Summary

Memory safety bugs fixed in Thunderbird 78.4. (CVE-2020-15683)
Use-after-free in usersctp. (CVE-2020-15969)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27438

- https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/78.3.3/releasenotes/

- https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/78.4.0/releasenotes/

- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2020-47/

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-15683

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-15969

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue critical thunderbird memory safety use-after-free mageia

Resolution

SRPMS

- 7/core/thunderbird-78.4.0-1.mga7

- 7/core/thunderbird-l10n-78.4.0-1.mga7

Severity
critical
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Critical

Publication date: 24 Oct 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0396.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2020-15683, CVE-2020-15969

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue critical thunderbird memory safety use-after-free mageia

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