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Red Hat Security Advisory: thunderbird security update

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Published: 11/10/2025 (11/10/2025, 01:48:16 UTC)
Source: GCVE Database
Vendor/Project: Red Hat Product Security
Product: Red Hat

Description

Multiple security vulnerabilities affecting Mozilla Thunderbird have been addressed in a Red Hat security advisory. These include memory safety bugs, out-of-bounds read/write issues, use-after-free conditions, cross-process information leaks, and improper handling of OBJECT tag attributes. The vulnerabilities are related to Firefox components integrated within Thunderbird and affect versions prior to Thunderbird ESR 140.4 and Thunderbird 144. Red Hat has released updated packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 variants to fix these issues.

Affected software

redhat/thunderbird
pkg:rpm/redhat/thunderbird
Affected versions
<140.4

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AI-Powered Analysis

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AILast updated: 06/28/2026, 22:23:30 UTC

Technical Analysis

This advisory covers several security vulnerabilities in Mozilla Thunderbird, primarily stemming from Firefox components used within Thunderbird. The issues include memory safety bugs (CVE-2025-11714, CVE-2025-11715), out-of-bounds read/write in privileged processes triggered by WebGL textures (CVE-2025-11709), cross-process information leaks due to malicious IPC messages (CVE-2025-11710), use-after-free in MediaTrackGraphImpl::GetInstance() (CVE-2025-11708), an OBJECT tag type attribute overriding browser behavior on web resources without a content-type (CVE-2025-11712), and modification of some non-writable object properties (CVE-2025-11711). These vulnerabilities have been fixed in Thunderbird ESR 140.4 and Thunderbird 144. Red Hat has issued updated packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 variants to address these issues.

Potential Impact

The vulnerabilities could allow attackers to exploit memory safety bugs, cause out-of-bounds memory access, leak sensitive information across processes, trigger use-after-free conditions, and override expected browser behaviors. Such issues may lead to potential arbitrary code execution, information disclosure, or privilege escalation within the Thunderbird mail client environment. The advisory rates the security impact as Important (high severity). No known exploits in the wild have been reported at the time of this advisory.

Mitigation Recommendations

Red Hat has released updated Thunderbird packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 variants that address these vulnerabilities. Users should apply the security update as provided by Red Hat to remediate these issues. For detailed update instructions, refer to the Red Hat article at https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258. Since official fixes are available, applying the update is the recommended mitigation.

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Technical Details

Gcve Source
db.gcve.eu
Csaf Category
csaf_security_advisory
Csaf Version
2.0
Publisher
Red Hat Product Security
Advisory Id
RHSA-2025:19942
Cve Count
7
Additional Cves
["CVE-2025-11709","CVE-2025-11710","CVE-2025-11711","CVE-2025-11712","CVE-2025-11714","CVE-2025-11715"]

Threat ID: 6a419cae27e9c79719aba43e

Added to database: 06/28/2026, 22:14:06 UTC

Last enriched: 06/28/2026, 22:23:30 UTC

Last updated: 09/10/2026, 19:36:49 UTC

Views: 32

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