RHSA-2020:5399 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: thunderbird security update

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 8

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · December 14, 2020

Updated · November 22, 2025

Topic

An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support.

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 78.5.1.

Security Fix(es):

  • Mozilla: Stack overflow due to incorrect parsing of SMTP server response codes (CVE-2020-26970)

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.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2020:5399 — Red Hat Security Advisory: thunderbird security update | PulseLinux