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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7: Thunderbird Important Security Update RHSA-2017:2885-01

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Calendar Grey October 11, 2017
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A critical patch has been released for Thunderbird on Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions 6 and 7, tackling various vulnerabilities.
An update for thunderbird is now available for 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 52.4.0.
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-2017-7810, CVE-2017-7793, CVE-2017-7818, CVE-2017-7819, CVE-2017-7824, CVE-2017-7814, CVE-2017-7823)
Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Christoph Diehl, Jan de Mooij, Jason Kratzer, Randell Jesup, Tom Ritter, Tyson Smith, Sebastian Hengst, Abhishek Arya, Nils, Omair, Andre Weissflog, François Marier, and Jun Kokatsu as the original reporters.

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow remote code execution arbitrary code execution Red Hat Enterprise Linux important Thunderbird

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7793 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7810 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7814 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7818 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7819 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7823 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7824 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-23/

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6):
Source: thunderbird-52.4.0-2.el6_9.src.rpm
i386: thunderbird-52.4.0-2.el6_9.i686.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-52.4.0-2.el6_9.i686.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-52.4.0-2.el6_9.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-52.4.0-2.el6_9.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6):
Source: thunderbird-52.4.0-2.el6_9.src.rpm
i386: thunderbird-52.4.0-2.el6_9.i686.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-52.4.0-2.el6_9.i686.rpm
ppc64: thunderbird-52.4.0-2.el6_9.ppc64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-52.4.0-2.el6_9.ppc64.rpm
s390x: thunderbird-52.4.0-2.el6_9.s390x.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-52.4.0-2.el6_9.s390x.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-52.4.0-2.el6_9.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-52.4.0-2.el6_9.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6):
Source: thunderbird-52.4.0-2.el6_9.src.rpm
i386: thunderbird-52.4.0-2.el6_9.i686.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-52.4.0-2.el6_9.i686.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-52.4.0-2.el6_9.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-52.4.0-2.el6_9.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: thunderbird-52.4.0-2.el7_4.src.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-52.4.0-2.el7_4.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-52.4.0-2.el7_4.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7):
Source: thunderbird-52.4.0-2.el7_4.src.rpm
aarch64:

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2017:2885-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2885
Issue date: 2017-10-11

Topic

An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6and 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 buffer overflow remote code execution arbitrary code execution Red Hat Enterprise Linux important Thunderbird

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - 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

1496649 - CVE-2017-7793 Mozilla: Use-after-free with Fetch API (MFSA 2017-22)

1496651 - CVE-2017-7810 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 56 and Firefox ESR 52.4 (MFSA 2017-22)

1496652 - CVE-2017-7814 Mozilla: Blob and data URLs bypass phishing and malware protection warnings (MFSA 2017-22)

1496653 - CVE-2017-7818 Mozilla: Use-after-free during ARIA array manipulation (MFSA 2017-22)

1496654 - CVE-2017-7819 Mozilla: Use-after-free while resizing images in design mode (MFSA 2017-22)

1496655 - CVE-2017-7823 Mozilla: CSP sandbox directive did not create a unique origin (MFSA 2017-22)

1496656 - CVE-2017-7824 Mozilla: Buffer overflow when drawing and validating elements with ANGLE (MFSA 2017-22)

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