14 DAY TRIAL // Mozilla has announced that Thunderbird 31.7 has been released and that it comes with a small number of vulnerability fixes, some more important than others.
The development of the Thunderbird email client is no longer in the hands of the Mozilla developers, but in those of the dedicated community. Mozilla no longer considers Thunderbird to be an attractive project and they don't want to invest any more time and money into it, so they have given the reins to some developers willing to do this on the side.
This means that most of the updates usually just integrate security fixes, although some fixes also slip in from time to time.
According to the changelog, a privilege escalation issue through IPC channel messages has been fixed, a buffer overflow that occurred when parsing compressed XML has been fixed, and use-after-free during text processing with vertical text has been enabled.
Also, a buffer overflow that happened with SVG and CSS content has been fixed, various memory safety hazards have been corrected, and a buffer overflow that occurred when parsing H.264 videos with Gstreamer on Linux has been repaired.
More details about this release can be found in the official changelog. Check out our review of the RSS function of Thunderbird.
You can download the Thunderbird 31.7.0 source and binary packages right now from Softpedia.