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Red Hat RHSA-2016:1041-01 Important: Thunderbird Code Issues

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Calendar Grey May 12, 2016
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An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

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

All running instances of Thunderbird must be restarted for the update to take effect.

Summary

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.
This update upgrades Thunderbird to version 38.8.0.
Security Fix(es):
* Two 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-2016-2805, CVE-2016-2807)
Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Phil Ringalda, Christian Holler, and Tyson Smith as the original reporters.

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Topics Covered

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References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2805 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2807 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/thunderbird/#thunderbird38.8

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client):
Source: thunderbird-38.8.0-1.el5_11.src.rpm
i386: thunderbird-38.8.0-1.el5_11.i386.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-38.8.0-1.el5_11.i386.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-38.8.0-1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-38.8.0-1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server):
Source: thunderbird-38.8.0-1.el5_11.src.rpm
i386: thunderbird-38.8.0-1.el5_11.i386.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-38.8.0-1.el5_11.i386.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-38.8.0-1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-38.8.0-1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6):
Source: thunderbird-38.8.0-2.el6_8.src.rpm
i386: thunderbird-38.8.0-2.el6_8.i686.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-38.8.0-2.el6_8.i686.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-38.8.0-2.el6_8.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-38.8.0-2.el6_8.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6):
Source: thunderbird-38.8.0-2.el6_8.src.rpm
i386: thunderbird-38.8.0-2.el6_8.i686.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-38.8.0-2.el6_8.i686.rpm
ppc64: thunderbird-38.8.0-2.el6_8.ppc64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-38.8.0-2.el6_8.ppc64.rpm
s390x: thunderbird-38.8.0-2.el6_8.s390x.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-38.8.0-2.el6_8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-38.8.0-2.el6_8.x86_64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2016:1041-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1041.html
Issue date: 2016-05-12

Topic

An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5,Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat arbitrary code execution malicious content memory safety important update Thunderbird

Relevant Releases Architectures

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 Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server) - 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

1330266 - CVE-2016-2805 Mozilla: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:38.8) (MFSA 2016-39)

1330271 - CVE-2016-2807 Mozilla: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:46.0 / rv:45.1 / rv:38.8) (MFSA 2016-39)

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