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Red Hat: CVE-2024-8394: thunderbird: Crash when aborting verification of OTR chat (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2024-8394: thunderbird: Crash when aborting verification of OTR chat (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
09/06/2024
Created
09/18/2024
Added
09/18/2024
Modified
09/18/2024

Description

When aborting the verification of an OTR chat session, an attacker could have caused a use-after-free bug leading to a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 128.2.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-thunderbird
  • redhat-upgrade-thunderbird-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-thunderbird-debugsource

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