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High ALAS2-2025-2836 5 CVEs

Important: thunderbird security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Apr 14, 2025 · Updated Apr 30, 2025

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-12421: The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as: When performing add-on updates, certificate chains terminating in non-built-in-roots were rejected (even if they were legitimately added by an administrator.) This could have caused add-ons to become out-of-date silently without notification to the user. CVE-2020-12420: The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as: When trying to connect to a STUN server, a race condition could have caused a use-after-free of a pointer, leading to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. CVE-2020-12419: The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as: When processing callbacks that occurred during window flushing in the parent process, the associated window may die; causing a use-after-free condition. This could have led to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. CVE-2020-12418: The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as: Manipulating individual parts of a URL object could have caused an out-of-bounds read, leaking process memory to malicious JavaScript. CVE-2020-12417: The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as: Due to confusion about ValueTags on JavaScript Objects, an object may pass through the type barrier, resulting in memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash.

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 thunderbird 0:68.10.0-1.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 thunderbird-debuginfo 0:68.10.0-1.amzn2

Vulnerabilities 5

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2020-12417.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2020-12418.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2020-12419.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2020-12420.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2020-12421.html