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Red Hat Security Advisory: thunderbird security update

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High
Published: 10/22/2025 (10/22/2025, 19:56:34 UTC)
Source: GCVE Database
Vendor/Project: Red Hat Product Security
Product: Red Hat

Description

Multiple memory safety and privilege escalation vulnerabilities have been identified in Mozilla Thunderbird, including use-after-free, out-of-bounds read/write, and cross-process information leaks. These issues affect Thunderbird as packaged by Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and related variants. Red Hat has released security updates to address these vulnerabilities in Thunderbird ESR 140.4 and Thunderbird 144. The vulnerabilities are rated as having an important security impact.

Affected software

redhat/thunderbird
pkg:rpm/redhat/thunderbird
Affected versions
=140.0 <140.4>=144.0 <144.4

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AI-Powered Analysis

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AILast updated: 06/28/2026, 22:25:36 UTC

Technical Analysis

This advisory covers several security vulnerabilities in Mozilla Thunderbird related to memory safety and privilege management, including CVE-2025-11708 (use-after-free in MediaTrackGraphImpl::GetInstance()), CVE-2025-11709 (out-of-bounds read/write triggered by WebGL textures), CVE-2025-11710 (cross-process information leak via malicious IPC messages), CVE-2025-11711 (modification of non-writable object properties), CVE-2025-11712 (OBJECT tag type attribute overriding browser behavior), CVE-2025-11714 and CVE-2025-11715 (memory safety bugs). These vulnerabilities were fixed in Thunderbird ESR 140.4 and Thunderbird 144, with Red Hat providing updated packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and its extended life cycle variants. The advisory does not provide CVSS scores but rates the impact as important.

Potential Impact

The vulnerabilities include memory safety bugs such as use-after-free and out-of-bounds read/write, which could lead to crashes or potentially arbitrary code execution. Cross-process information leaks could expose sensitive data between processes. Modification of non-writable object properties and overriding browser behavior could affect application integrity and security. Collectively, these issues pose a high risk to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the affected Thunderbird clients.

Mitigation Recommendations

Red Hat has released updated Thunderbird packages (version 140.4.0-2.el8_10 and corresponding builds) for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and its extended life cycle variants that address these vulnerabilities. Users should apply these official updates promptly. For detailed update instructions, refer to Red Hat's advisory at https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258. No additional mitigation steps are indicated beyond applying the provided security 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-2025:18983
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: 6a419cb027e9c79719abb0c5

Added to database: 06/28/2026, 22:14:08 UTC

Last enriched: 06/28/2026, 22:25:36 UTC

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

Views: 25

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