Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS2-2025-2836
Advisory Released Date: 2025-04-30
Advisory Updated Date: 2025-04-30
FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity
The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as:
Due to confusion about ValueTags on JavaScript Objects, an object may pass through the type barrier, resulting in memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2020-12417)
The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as:
Manipulating individual parts of a URL object could have caused an out-of-bounds read, leaking process memory to malicious JavaScript. (CVE-2020-12418)
The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as:
When processing callbacks that occurred during window flushing in the parent process, the associated window may die; causing a use-after-free condition. This could have led to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2020-12419)
The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as:
When trying to connect to a STUN server, a race condition could have caused a use-after-free of a pointer, leading to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2020-12420)
The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as:
When performing add-on updates, certificate chains terminating in non-built-in-roots were rejected (even if they were legitimately added by an administrator.) This could have caused add-ons to become out-of-date silently without notification to the user. (CVE-2020-12421)
Affected Packages:
thunderbird
Note:
This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.
Issue Correction:
Run yum update thunderbird to update your system.
aarch64:
thunderbird-68.10.0-1.amzn2.aarch64
thunderbird-debuginfo-68.10.0-1.amzn2.aarch64
src:
thunderbird-68.10.0-1.amzn2.src
x86_64:
thunderbird-68.10.0-1.amzn2.x86_64
thunderbird-debuginfo-68.10.0-1.amzn2.x86_64