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Mozilla Patches Critical Bug in Thunderbird

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday December 31 2017, @06:27AM   Printer-friendly
from the another-day-another-patch dept.

mrpg writes:

https://threatpost.com/mozilla-patches-critical-bug-in-thunderbird/129244/

Mozilla issued a critical security update to its popular open-source Thunderbird email client. The patch was part of a December release of five fixes that included two bugs rated high and one rated moderate and another low.

Mozilla said Thunderbird, which is also serves as a news, RSS and chat client, the latest Thunderbird 52.5.2 version released last week fixes the vulnerabilities.

The most serious of the fixes is a critical buffer overflow bug (CVE-2017-7845) impacting Thunderbird running on the Windows operating system. The bug is present when "drawing and validating elements with angle library using Direct 3D 9," according to the Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory.

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  • (Score: 2) by tekk on Sunday December 31 2017, @08:18PM

    by tekk (5704) Subscriber Badge on Sunday December 31 2017, @08:18PM (#616197)

    DirectX is how you draw on windows. They deprecated GDI and the other methods iirc, so if you want to put pixels on the screen it's DX or OpenGL.

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