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Red Hat: RHSA-2017-0437-01 Critical: Firefox Security Vulnerability

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Canonical announces a significant patch for vulnerabilities in the Ubuntu desktop environment impacting various releases of the operating system.
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 45.7.0.
Security Fix(es):
* Multiple 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-2017-5373, CVE-2017-5375, CVE-2017-5376, CVE-2017-5378, CVE-2017-5380, CVE-2017-5383, CVE-2017-5390, CVE-2017-5396)
Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Jann Horn, Filipe Gomes, Nils, Armin Razmjou, Christian Holler, Gary Kwong, Andre Bargull, Jan de Mooij, Tom Schuster, Oriol, Rh0, Nicolas Gregoire, and Jerri Rice as the original reporters.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat Enterprise Linux important security impact execution flaw thunderbird update

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5373 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5375 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5376 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5378 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5380 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5383 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5390 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5396 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-03/

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client):
Source: thunderbird-45.7.0-1.el5_11.src.rpm
i386: thunderbird-45.7.0-1.el5_11.i386.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-45.7.0-1.el5_11.i386.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-45.7.0-1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-45.7.0-1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server):
Source: thunderbird-45.7.0-1.el5_11.src.rpm
i386: thunderbird-45.7.0-1.el5_11.i386.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-45.7.0-1.el5_11.i386.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-45.7.0-1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-45.7.0-1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6):
Source: thunderbird-45.7.0-1.el6_8.src.rpm
i386: thunderbird-45.7.0-1.el6_8.i686.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-45.7.0-1.el6_8.i686.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-45.7.0-1.el6_8.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-45.7.0-1.el6_8.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6):
Source: thunderbird-45.7.0-1.el6_8.src.rpm
i386: thunderbird-45.7.0-1.el6_8.i686.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-45.7.0-1.el6_8.i686.rpm
ppc64: thunderbird-45.7.0-1.el6_8.ppc64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-45.7.0-1.el6_8.ppc64.rpm
s390x: thunderbird-45.7.0-1.el6_8.s390x.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-45.7.0-1.el6_8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-45.7.0-1.el6_8.x86_64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2017:0238-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0238.html
Issue date: 2017-02-02

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 Enterprise Linux important security impact execution flaw thunderbird update

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) - 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

1415924 - CVE-2017-5373 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 51 and Firefox ESR 45.7 (MFSA 2017-01)

1416271 - CVE-2017-5375 Mozilla: Excessive JIT code allocation allows bypass of ASLR and DEP (MFSA 2017-02)

1416272 - CVE-2017-5376 Mozilla: Use-after-free in XSL (MFSA 2017-02)

1416273 - CVE-2017-5378 Mozilla: Pointer and frame data leakage of Javascript objects (MFSA 2017-02)

1416274 - CVE-2017-5380 Mozilla: Potential use-after-free during DOM manipulations (MFSA 2017-02)

1416279 - CVE-2017-5390 Mozilla: Insecure communication methods in Developer Tools JSON viewer (MFSA 2017-02)

1416280 - CVE-2017-5396 Mozilla: Use-after-free with Media Decoder (MFSA 2017-02)

1416281 - CVE-2017-5383 Mozilla: Location bar spoofing with unicode characters (MFSA 2017-02)

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