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RHSA-2020:5624 — 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 18, 2020

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 78.6.0.

Security Fix(es):

  • chromium-browser: Uninitialized Use in V8 (CVE-2020-16042)

  • Mozilla: Heap buffer overflow in WebGL (CVE-2020-26971)

  • Mozilla: CSS Sanitizer performed incorrect sanitization (CVE-2020-26973)

  • Mozilla: Incorrect cast of StyleGenericFlexBasis resulted in a heap use-after-free (CVE-2020-26974)

  • Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 84 and Firefox ESR 78.6 (CVE-2020-35113)

  • Mozilla: Internal network hosts could have been probed by a malicious webpage (CVE-2020-26978)

  • Mozilla: The proxy.onRequest API did not catch view-source URLs (CVE-2020-35111)

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-2020:5624 — Red Hat Security Advisory: thunderbird security update | PulseLinux