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Security vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 52.8

Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2018-13

Announced
May 18, 2018
Impact
critical
Products
Thunderbird
Fixed in
  • Thunderbird 52.8

In general, these flaws cannot be exploited through email in the Thunderbird product because scripting is disabled when reading mail, but are potentially risks in browser or browser-like contexts.

#CVE-2018-5183: Backport critical security fixes in Skia

Reporter
Mozilla Developers
Impact
critical
Description

Mozilla developers backported selected changes in the Skia library. These changes correct memory corruption issues including invalid buffer reads and writes during graphic operations.

References
  • Bug 1454692

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