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High ALAS2-2020-1386 5 CVEs

Important: thunderbird security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Jan 14, 2020 · Updated Jan 17, 2020

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2019-17012: Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 70 and Firefox ESR 68.2. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.3, Firefox ESR < 68.3, and Firefox < 71. 1779437: CVE-2019-17012 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 71 and Firefox ESR 68.3 CVE-2019-17011: Under certain conditions, when retrieving a document from a DocShell in the antitracking code, a race condition could cause a use-after-free condition and a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.3, Firefox ESR < 68.3, and Firefox < 71. 1779436: CVE-2019-17011 Mozilla: Use-after-free when retrieving a document in antitracking CVE-2019-17010: Under certain conditions, when checking the Resist Fingerprinting preference during device orientation checks, a race condition could have caused a use-after-free and a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.3, Firefox ESR < 68.3, and Firefox < 71. 1779434: CVE-2019-17010 Mozilla: Use-after-free when performing device orientation checks CVE-2019-17008: When using nested workers, a use-after-free could occur during worker destruction. This resulted in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.3, Firefox ESR < 68.3, and Firefox < 71. 1779431: CVE-2019-17008 Mozilla: Use-after-free in worker destruction CVE-2019-17005: The plain text serializer used a fixed-size array for the number of <ol> elements it could process; however it was possible to overflow the static-sized array leading to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.3, Firefox ESR < 68.3, and Firefox < 71. 1779435: CVE-2019-17005 Mozilla: Buffer overflow in plain text serializer

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 thunderbird 0:68.3.0-1.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 thunderbird-debuginfo 0:68.3.0-1.amzn2.0.1

Vulnerabilities 5

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2019-17005.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2019-17008.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2019-17010.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2019-17011.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2019-17012.html