Powerful email, chat and RSS client from Mozilla

Feb 24, 2015 19:13 GMT  ·  By

After announcing the release of the highly anticipated Mozilla Firefox 36.0 web browser, Mozilla had the pleasure of announcing a new maintenance release for its powerful email, news and chat client, Mozilla Thunderbird.

Mozilla Thunderbird 31.5.0 is here to fix only three issues that were discovered and reported by users from the previous version of the software, 31.4.0. More precisely, two critical bugs have been squashed, and one high issue has been resolved in the new Thunderbird release.

According to the release notes, a use-after-free vulnerability has been discovered by security researcher Paul Bandha. The issue appeared only when certain web content was run with IndexedDB to create an index, leading to a potentially exploitable crash.

Security researcher Holger Fuhrmannek has discovered that locally stored DLL files were loaded automatically when the Mozilla Updater tool was invoked by the user on Microsoft Windows operating systems. This could allow an attacker to load malicious DLL files into the OS.

Last but not least, numerous memory safety bugs have been identified and fixed by Mozilla developers in Mozilla Thunderbird 31.5.0. You can download Mozilla Thunderbird 31.5.0 for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X right now from Softpedia. The software is available as pre-built binaries for 32- and 64-bit computer platforms, as well as a source package.