Mozilla Thunderbird and Firefox: Multiple vulnerabilities — GLSA 201904-07

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Mozilla Thunderbird and Firefox, the worst of which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

Affected packages

mail-client/thunderbird on all architectures
Affected versions < 60.6.1
Unaffected versions >= 60.6.1
mail-client/thunderbird-bin on all architectures
Affected versions < 60.6.1
Unaffected versions >= 60.6.1
www-client/firefox on all architectures
Affected versions < 60.6.1
Unaffected versions >= 60.6.1
www-client/firefox-bin on all architectures
Affected versions < 60.6.1
Unaffected versions >= 60.6.1

Background

Mozilla Thunderbird is a popular open-source email client from the Mozilla project. Mozilla Firefox is a popular open-source web browser from the Mozilla Project.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mozilla Thunderbird and Firefox. Please review the referenced Mozilla Foundation Security Advisories and CVE identifiers below for details.

Impact

Please review the referenced Mozilla Foundation Security Advisories and CVE identifiers below for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Thunderbird users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=mail-client/thunderbird-60.6.1"
 

All Thunderbird bin users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose
 ">=mail-client/thunderbird-bin-60.6.1"
 

All Firefox users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/firefox-60.6.1"
 

All Firefox bin users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/firefox-bin-60.6.1"
 

References

Release date
April 02, 2019

Latest revision
April 02, 2019: 1

Severity
normal

Exploitable
remote

Bugzilla entries