RHSA-2020:2048 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: thunderbird security update
Severity
CriticalRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · May 11, 2020
Updated · November 2, 2026
Topic
An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. 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 68.8.0.
Security Fix(es):
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Mozilla: Use-after-free during worker shutdown (CVE-2020-12387)
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Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 76 and Firefox ESR 68.8 (CVE-2020-12395)
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usrsctp: Buffer overflow in AUTH chunk input validation (CVE-2020-6831)
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Mozilla: Arbitrary local file access with 'Copy as cURL' (CVE-2020-12392)
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Mozilla: Sender Email Address Spoofing using encoded Unicode characters (CVE-2020-12397)
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.