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Red Hat Enterprise Linux: RHSA-2012-1413-01 Critical: Thunderbird XSS

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Calendar Grey October 29, 2012
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A crucial patch for Thunderbird addresses various vulnerabilities impacting users on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Make sure to update immediately!
An updated thunderbird package that fixes multiple security issues is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6

Solution

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

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

Summary

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.
Multiple flaws were found in the location object implementation in Thunderbird. Malicious content could be used to perform cross-site scripting attacks, bypass the same-origin policy, or cause Thunderbird to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2012-4194, CVE-2012-4195, CVE-2012-4196)
Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Mariusz Mlynski, moz_bug_r_a4, and Antoine Delignat-Lavaud as the original reporters of these issues.
Note: None of the issues in this advisory can 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.
All Thunderbird users should upgrade to this updated package, which contains Thunderbird version 10.0.10 ESR, which corrects these issues. After installing the update, Thunderbird must be restarted for the changes to take effect.

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References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-4194 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-4195 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-4196 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client):
Source:
i386: thunderbird-10.0.10-1.el5_8.i386.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-10.0.10-1.el5_8.i386.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-10.0.10-1.el5_8.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-10.0.10-1.el5_8.x86_64.rpm
RHEL Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server):
Source:
i386: thunderbird-10.0.10-1.el5_8.i386.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-10.0.10-1.el5_8.i386.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-10.0.10-1.el5_8.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-10.0.10-1.el5_8.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6):
Source:
i386: thunderbird-10.0.10-1.el6_3.i686.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-10.0.10-1.el6_3.i686.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-10.0.10-1.el6_3.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-10.0.10-1.el6_3.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6):
Source:
i386: thunderbird-10.0.10-1.el6_3.i686.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-10.0.10-1.el6_3.i686.rpm
ppc64: thunderbird-10.0.10-1.el6_3.ppc64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-10.0.10-1.el6_3.ppc64.rpm
s390x: thunderbird-10.0.10-1.el6_3.s390x.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-10.0.10-1.el6_3.s390x.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-10.0.10-1.el6_3.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-10.0.10-1.el6_3.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6):
Source:
i386: thunderbird-10.0.10-1.el6_3.i686.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2012:1413-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012:1413.html
Issue date: 2012-10-29

Topic

An updated thunderbird package that fixes multiple security issues is nowavailable for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as havingimportant security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) basescores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for eachvulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat Enterprise Linux critical threat thunderbird mail client XSS issue important security update

Relevant Releases Architectures

RHEL Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server) - i386, 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 Workstation (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

869893 - CVE-2012-4194 CVE-2012-4195 CVE-2012-4196 Mozilla: Fixes for Location object issues (MFSA 2012-90)

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