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High ALAS2-2026-3340 16 CVEs

Important: thunderbird security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Jun 8, 2026 · Updated Jun 8, 2026

Ecosystem: Amazon Linux

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-8975: Memory safety bugs present in Thunderbird 140.10 and Thunderbird 150. 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 was fixed in Firefox 151, Firefox ESR 115.36, Firefox ESR 140.11, Thunderbird 151, and Thunderbird 140.11. CVE-2026-8974: Memory safety bugs present in Thunderbird 140.10 and Thunderbird 150. 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 was fixed in Firefox 151, Firefox ESR 140.11, Thunderbird 151, and Thunderbird 140.11. CVE-2026-8970: Privilege escalation in the Security component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 151, Firefox ESR 140.11, Thunderbird 151, and Thunderbird 140.11. CVE-2026-8968: Denial-of-service due to invalid pointer in the Audio/Video: Web Codecs component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 151, Firefox ESR 140.11, Thunderbird 151, and Thunderbird 140.11. CVE-2026-8962: Mitigation bypass in the DOM: Security component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 151, Firefox ESR 140.11, Thunderbird 151, and Thunderbird 140.11. CVE-2026-8961: Spoofing issue in the Form Autofill component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 151, Firefox ESR 140.11, Thunderbird 151, and Thunderbird 140.11. CVE-2026-8958: Information disclosure, sandbox escape in the Security: Process Sandboxing component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 151, Firefox ESR 140.11, Thunderbird 151, and Thunderbird 140.11. CVE-2026-8957: Privilege escalation in the Enterprise Policies component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 151, Firefox ESR 140.11, Thunderbird 151, and Thunderbird 140.11. CVE-2026-8956: Integer overflow in the Networking: JAR component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 151, Firefox ESR 140.11, Thunderbird 151, and Thunderbird 140.11. CVE-2026-8955: Privilege escalation in the DOM: Workers component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 151, Firefox ESR 140.11, Thunderbird 151, and Thunderbird 140.11. CVE-2026-8954: Incorrect boundary conditions, integer overflow in the Audio/Video component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 151, Firefox ESR 140.11, Thunderbird 151, and Thunderbird 140.11. CVE-2026-8953: Sandbox escape due to use-after-free in the Disability Access APIs component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 151, Firefox ESR 115.36, Firefox ESR 140.11, Thunderbird 151, and Thunderbird 140.11. CVE-2026-8950: Same-origin policy bypass in the Networking: HTTP component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 151, Firefox ESR 140.11, Thunderbird 151, and Thunderbird 140.11. CVE-2026-8947: Use-after-free in the DOM: Bindings (WebIDL) component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 151, Firefox ESR 115.36, Firefox ESR 140.11, Thunderbird 151, and Thunderbird 140.11. CVE-2026-8946: Incorrect boundary conditions in the Audio/Video: Web Codecs component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 151, Firefox ESR 115.36, Firefox ESR 140.11, Thunderbird 151, and Thunderbird 140.11. CVE-2026-40930: Three inter-frame chunk discard paths in the push-mode APNG parser clear the chunk-header flag without consuming the chunk body and CRC, allowing attacker-controlled bytes inside an ignored ancillary chunk to be reinterpreted as a fresh chunk header on the next call to png_process_data

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 thunderbird 0:140.11.1-1.amzn2.0.2

Vulnerabilities 16

References

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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-40930.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-8946.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-8947.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-8950.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-8953.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-8954.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-8955.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-8956.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-8957.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-8958.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-8961.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-8962.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-8968.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-8970.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-8974.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-8975.html