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Red Hat 5, 6, 7: RHSA-2015:1012-01 Important: Thunderbird Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey May 18, 2015
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Critical patch released for Thunderbird on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, fixing various vulnerabilities. Take immediate action!
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-2015-2708, CVE-2015-2710, CVE-2015-2713)
A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way Thunderbird processed compressed XML data. An attacker could create specially crafted compressed XML content that, when processed by Thunderbird, could cause it to crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2015-2716)
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 Jesse Ruderman, Mats Palmgren, Byron Campen, Steve Fink, Atte Kettunen, Scott Bell, and Ucha Gobejishvili as the original reporters of these issues.
For technical details regarding these flaws, refer to the Mozilla security advisories for Thunderbird 31.7. 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 31.7, 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-2015-2708 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-2710 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-2713 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-2716 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/thunderbird/#thunderbird31.7

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client):
Source: thunderbird-31.7.0-1.el5_11.src.rpm
i386: thunderbird-31.7.0-1.el5_11.i386.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-31.7.0-1.el5_11.i386.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-31.7.0-1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-31.7.0-1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
RHEL Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server):
Source: thunderbird-31.7.0-1.el5_11.src.rpm
i386: thunderbird-31.7.0-1.el5_11.i386.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-31.7.0-1.el5_11.i386.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-31.7.0-1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-31.7.0-1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6):
Source: thunderbird-31.7.0-1.el6_6.src.rpm
i386: thunderbird-31.7.0-1.el6_6.i686.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-31.7.0-1.el6_6.i686.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-31.7.0-1.el6_6.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-31.7.0-1.el6_6.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6):
Source: thunderbird-31.7.0-1.el6_6.src.rpm
i386: thunderbird-31.7.0-1.el6_6.i686.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-31.7.0-1.el6_6.i686.rpm
ppc64: thunderbird-31.7.0-1.el6_6.ppc64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-31.7.0-1.el6_6.ppc64.rpm
s390x: thunderbird-31.7.0-1.el6_6.s390x.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-31.7.0-1.el6_6.s390x.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-31.7.0-1.el6_6.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-31.7.0-1.el6_6.x86_64.rpm


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2015:1012-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue date: 2015-05-18

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

1220597 - CVE-2015-2708 Mozilla: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:31.7) (MFSA 2015-46)

1220601 - CVE-2015-2710 Mozilla: Buffer overflow with SVG content and CSS (MFSA 2015-48)

1220605 - CVE-2015-2713 Mozilla: Use-after-free during text processing with vertical text enabled (MFSA 2015-51)

1220607 - CVE-2015-2716 Mozilla: Buffer overflow when parsing compressed XML (MFSA 2015-54)

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