Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird RHSA-2018:0262

Description

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client. This update upgrades Thunderbird to version 52.6.0. Security Fix(es): * Multiple flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Thunderbird to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2018-5089, CVE-2018-5095, CVE-2018-5096, CVE-2018-5097, CVE-2018-5098, CVE-2018-5099, CVE-2018-5102, CVE-2018-5103, CVE-2018-5104, CVE-2018-5117) Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Christian Holler, Jason Kratzer, Marcia Knous, Nathan Froyd, Oriol Brufau, Ronald Crane, Randell Jesup, Tyson Smith, Cobos lvarez, Ryan VanderMeulen, Sebastian Hengst, Karl Tomlinson, Xidorn Quan, Ludovic Hirlimann, Jason Orendorff, Anonymous, Nils, and Xisigr as the original reporters.

Affected Applications

Thunderbird

CVE References

CVE-2018-5089 CVE-2018-5095 CVE-2018-5096 CVE-2018-5097 CVE-2018-5098 CVE-2018-5099 CVE-2018-5102 CVE-2018-5103 CVE-2018-5104 CVE-2018-5117

Other References

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0262