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Red Hat Security Advisory: thunderbird security update

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High
Published: 09/18/2025 (09/18/2025, 10:30:09 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 update for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. These include sandbox escapes due to use-after-free and undefined behavior in the Graphics Canvas2D component, a same-origin policy bypass in the Layout component, memory safety bugs, information disclosure in the Networking Cache component, incorrect boundary conditions in the JavaScript GC component, and an integer overflow in the SVG component. The update fixes these issues in Thunderbird ESR 140.3 and later versions.

Affected software

redhat/thunderbird
pkg:rpm/redhat/thunderbird
Affected versions
>=140.0 <140.3

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AI-Powered Analysis

Machine-generated threat intelligence

AILast updated: 08/22/2026, 22:23:31 UTC

Technical Analysis

This Red Hat security advisory addresses several vulnerabilities in Mozilla Thunderbird, including sandbox escapes caused by use-after-free and invalid pointer issues in the Graphics Canvas2D component (CVE-2025-10527, CVE-2025-10528), a same-origin policy bypass in the Layout component (CVE-2025-10529), incorrect boundary conditions in the JavaScript garbage collector (CVE-2025-10532), integer overflow in the SVG component (CVE-2025-10533), information disclosure in the Networking Cache component (CVE-2025-10536), and memory safety bugs fixed in Thunderbird ESR 140.3 (CVE-2025-10537). These vulnerabilities could potentially allow sandbox escapes, information disclosure, and other security issues. The advisory covers fixes applied in Thunderbird ESR 140.3 and Firefox ESR 140.3 and later.

Potential Impact

The vulnerabilities collectively pose a high security impact, including the risk of sandbox escapes which could allow attackers to break out of restricted execution environments, information disclosure through networking cache flaws, bypass of same-origin policy protections, and memory safety issues that could lead to crashes or code execution. These issues affect Thunderbird versions prior to 140.3 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. No known exploits in the wild have been reported at the time of this advisory.

Mitigation Recommendations

A security update is available and should be applied to affected systems. Red Hat has released Thunderbird ESR 140.3 packages that address these vulnerabilities. Users should update to Thunderbird ESR 140.3 or later as provided by Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 updates. For detailed update instructions, refer to the Red Hat advisory at https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258. No additional mitigations are indicated beyond applying the official update.

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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-2025:16156
Cve Count
7
Additional Cves
["CVE-2025-10528","CVE-2025-10529","CVE-2025-10532","CVE-2025-10533","CVE-2025-10536","CVE-2025-10537"]

Threat ID: 6a419cb427e9c79719abc9a1

Added to database: 06/28/2026, 22:14:12 UTC

Last enriched: 08/22/2026, 22:23:31 UTC

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

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