Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2021-1594
Advisory Release Date: 2021-01-25 23:10 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2021-01-26 18:44 Pacific
Severity:
Critical
Issue Overview:
A malicious peer could have modified a COOKIE-ECHO chunk in a SCTP packet in a way that potentially resulted in a use-after-free. We presume that with enough effort it could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. (CVE-2020-16044)
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.
New Packages:
aarch64:
thunderbird-78.6.1-1.amzn2.aarch64
thunderbird-debuginfo-78.6.1-1.amzn2.aarch64
src:
thunderbird-78.6.1-1.amzn2.src
x86_64:
thunderbird-78.6.1-1.amzn2.x86_64
thunderbird-debuginfo-78.6.1-1.amzn2.x86_64