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Red Hat Enterprise Linux: RHSA-2015-2519-01 Critical: Thunderbird Update

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Calendar Grey November 26, 2015
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Crucial Thunderbird upgrade for Fedora tackles several vulnerabilities with severe implications. Immediate update advised.
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-2015-4513, CVE-2015-7189, CVE-2015-7197, CVE-2015-7198, CVE-2015-7199, CVE-2015-7200)
A same-origin policy bypass flaw was found in the way Thunderbird handled certain cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) requests. A web page containing malicious content could cause Thunderbird to disclose sensitive information. (CVE-2015-7193)
Note: All of the above issues cannot be exploited by a specially crafted HTML mail message because JavaScript is disabled by default for mail messages. However, they could be exploited in other ways in Thunderbird (for example, by viewing the full remote content of an RSS feed).
Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Christian Holler, David Major, Jesse Ruderman, Tyson Smith, Boris Zbarsky, Randell Jesup, Olli Pettay, Karl Tomlinson, Jeff Walden, Gary Kwong, Looben Yang, Shinto K Anto, Ronald Crane, and Ehsan Akhgari as the original reporters of these issues.
For technical details regarding these flaws, refer to the Mozilla security advisories for Thunderbird 38.4.0. 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 38.4.0, 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-2015-4513 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7189 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7193 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7197 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7198 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7199 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7200 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/thunderbird/#thunderbird38.4

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client):
Source: thunderbird-38.4.0-1.el5_11.src.rpm
i386: thunderbird-38.4.0-1.el5_11.i386.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-38.4.0-1.el5_11.i386.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-38.4.0-1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-38.4.0-1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
RHEL Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server):
Source: thunderbird-38.4.0-1.el5_11.src.rpm
i386: thunderbird-38.4.0-1.el5_11.i386.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-38.4.0-1.el5_11.i386.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-38.4.0-1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-38.4.0-1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6):
Source: thunderbird-38.4.0-1.el6_7.src.rpm
i386: thunderbird-38.4.0-1.el6_7.i686.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-38.4.0-1.el6_7.i686.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-38.4.0-1.el6_7.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-38.4.0-1.el6_7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6):
Source: thunderbird-38.4.0-1.el6_7.src.rpm
i386: thunderbird-38.4.0-1.el6_7.i686.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-38.4.0-1.el6_7.i686.rpm
ppc64: thunderbird-38.4.0-1.el6_7.ppc64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-38.4.0-1.el6_7.ppc64.rpm
s390x: thunderbird-38.4.0-1.el6_7.s390x.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-38.4.0-1.el6_7.s390x.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-38.4.0-1.el6_7.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-38.4.0-1.el6_7.x86_64.rpm


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2015:2519-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue date: 2015-11-26

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) - aarch64, ppc64le, x86_64

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

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

Bugs Fixed

1277332 - CVE-2015-4513 Mozilla: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:38.4) (MFSA 2015-116)

1277344 - CVE-2015-7189 Mozilla: Buffer overflow during image interactions in canvas (MFSA 2015-123)

1277346 - CVE-2015-7193 Mozilla: CORS preflight is bypassed when non-standard Content-Type headers are received (MFSA 2015-127)

1277350 - CVE-2015-7198 CVE-2015-7199 CVE-2015-7200 Mozilla: Vulnerabilities found through code inspection (MFSA 2015-131)

1277351 - CVE-2015-7197 Mozilla: Mixed content WebSocket policy bypass through workers (MFSA 2015-132)

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