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High RLSA-2021:3838 7 CVEs

Important: thunderbird security update

Published Oct 13, 2021 · Updated Feb 4, 2026

Summary

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.

This update upgrades Thunderbird to version 91.2.0.

Security Fix(es):

* Mozilla: Use-after-free in MessageTask (CVE-2021-38496)

* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 93, Firefox ESR 78.15, and Firefox ESR 91.2 (CVE-2021-38500)

* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 93 and Firefox ESR 91.2 (CVE-2021-38501)

* Mozilla: Downgrade attack on SMTP STARTTLS connections (CVE-2021-38502)

* rust-crossbeam-deque: race condition may lead to double free (CVE-2021-32810)

* Mozilla: Validation message could have been overlaid on another origin (CVE-2021-38497)

* Mozilla: Use-after-free of nsLanguageAtomService object (CVE-2021-38498)

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.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Rocky Linux · 8 thunderbird 0:91.2.0-1.el8_4

Vulnerabilities 7

References

  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1990342
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2011097
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2011098
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2011099
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2011100
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2011101
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2013469