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Red Hat: RHSA-2015:0771-01 Important: Thunderbird Security Flaw Fix

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Calendar Grey April 1, 2015
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Revised Thunderbird security notice for Red Hat responding to critical threats and weaknesses affecting significant releases.
An updated thunderbird package that fixes multiple security issues is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.
Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Thunderbird to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2015-0813, CVE-2015-0815, CVE-2015-0801)
A flaw was found in the way documents were loaded via resource URLs. An attacker could use this flaw to bypass certain restrictions and under certain conditions even execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2015-0816)
A flaw was found in the Beacon interface implementation in Thunderbird. A web page containing malicious content could allow a remote attacker to conduct a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attack. (CVE-2015-0807)
Note: All of the above issues cannot be exploited by a specially crafted HTML mail message as JavaScript is disabled by default for mail messages. They could be exploited another way in Thunderbird, for example, when viewing the full remote content of an RSS feed.
Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Christian Holler, Byron Campen, Steve Fink, Mariusz Mlynski, Christoph Kerschbaumer, Muneaki Nishimura, Olli Pettay, Boris Zbarsky, and Aki Helin as the original reporters of these issues.
For technical details regarding these flaws, refer to the Mozilla security advisories for Thunderbird 31.6.0. You can find a link to the Mozilla advisories in the References section of this erratum.
All Thunderbird users should upgrade to this updated package, which contains Thunderbird version 31.6.0, which corrects these issues. After installing the update, Thunderbird must be restarted for the changes to take effect.

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0801 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0807 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0813 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0815 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0816 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/thunderbird/#thunderbird31.6

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client):
Source: thunderbird-31.6.0-1.el5_11.src.rpm
i386: thunderbird-31.6.0-1.el5_11.i386.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-31.6.0-1.el5_11.i386.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-31.6.0-1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-31.6.0-1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
RHEL Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server):
Source: thunderbird-31.6.0-1.el5_11.src.rpm
i386: thunderbird-31.6.0-1.el5_11.i386.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-31.6.0-1.el5_11.i386.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-31.6.0-1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-31.6.0-1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6):
Source: thunderbird-31.6.0-1.el6_6.src.rpm
i386: thunderbird-31.6.0-1.el6_6.i686.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-31.6.0-1.el6_6.i686.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-31.6.0-1.el6_6.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-31.6.0-1.el6_6.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6):
Source: thunderbird-31.6.0-1.el6_6.src.rpm
i386: thunderbird-31.6.0-1.el6_6.i686.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-31.6.0-1.el6_6.i686.rpm
ppc64: thunderbird-31.6.0-1.el6_6.ppc64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-31.6.0-1.el6_6.ppc64.rpm
s390x: thunderbird-31.6.0-1.el6_6.s390x.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-31.6.0-1.el6_6.s390x.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-31.6.0-1.el6_6.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-31.6.0-1.el6_6.x86_64.rpm


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2015:0771-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue date: 2015-04-01

Topic

An updated thunderbird package that fixes multiple security issues is nowavailable for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important securityimpact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which givedetailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from theCVE links in the References section.

Relevant Releases Architectures

RHEL Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6) - i386, ppc64, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - ppc64le, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1207068 - CVE-2015-0815 Mozilla: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:31.6) (MFSA 2015-30)

1207072 - CVE-2015-0816 Mozilla: resource:// documents can load privileged pages (MFSA 2015-33)

1207076 - CVE-2015-0807 Mozilla: CORS requests should not follow 30x redirections after preflight (MFSA 2015-37)

1207084 - CVE-2015-0801 Mozilla: Same-origin bypass through anchor navigation (MFSA 2015-40)

1207088 - CVE-2015-0813 Mozilla: Use-after-free when using the Fluendo MP3 GStreamer plugin (MFSA 2015-31)

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