RHSA-2019:4195 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: thunderbird security update
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · December 11, 2019
Updated · November 22, 2025
Topic
An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Description
Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.
This update upgrades Thunderbird to version 68.3.0.
Security Fix(es):
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Mozilla: Use-after-free in worker destruction (CVE-2019-17008)
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Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 71 and Firefox ESR 68.3 (CVE-2019-17012)
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Mozilla: Buffer overflow in plain text serializer (CVE-2019-17005)
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Mozilla: Use-after-free when performing device orientation checks (CVE-2019-17010)
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Mozilla: Use-after-free when retrieving a document in antitracking (CVE-2019-17011)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.