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Red Hat Enterprise 6: RHSA-2018:0647-01 Critical: Thunderbird Security Fix

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A significant revision for Thunderbird on Red Hat Enterprise Linux includes solutions for various security vulnerabilities categorized as critical.
An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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 52.7.0.
Security Fix(es):
* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 59 and Firefox ESR 52.7 (MFSA 2018-07) (CVE-2018-5125)
* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 52.7 (MFSA 2018-07) (CVE-2018-5145)
* Mozilla: Vorbis audio processing out of bounds write (MFSA 2018-08) (CVE-2018-5146)
* Mozilla: Buffer overflow manipulating SVG animatedPathSegList (MFSA 2018-07) (CVE-2018-5127)
* Mozilla: Out-of-bounds write with malformed IPC messages (MFSA 2018-07) (CVE-2018-5129)
* Mozilla: Integer overflow during Unicode conversion (MFSA 2018-07) (CVE-2018-5144)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Bob Clary, Olli Pettay, Christian Holler, Nils Ohlmeier, Randell Jesup, Tyson Smith, Ralph Giles, Philipp, Jet Villegas, Richard Zhu via Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative, Nils, James Grant, and Root Object as the original reporters.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow important Red Hat Enterprise memory safety Thunderbird out-of-bounds

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5125 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5127 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5129 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5144 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5145 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5146 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-09/

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6):
Source: thunderbird-52.7.0-1.el6_9.src.rpm
i386: thunderbird-52.7.0-1.el6_9.i686.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-52.7.0-1.el6_9.i686.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-52.7.0-1.el6_9.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-52.7.0-1.el6_9.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6):
Source: thunderbird-52.7.0-1.el6_9.src.rpm
i386: thunderbird-52.7.0-1.el6_9.i686.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-52.7.0-1.el6_9.i686.rpm
ppc64: thunderbird-52.7.0-1.el6_9.ppc64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-52.7.0-1.el6_9.ppc64.rpm
s390x: thunderbird-52.7.0-1.el6_9.s390x.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-52.7.0-1.el6_9.s390x.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-52.7.0-1.el6_9.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-52.7.0-1.el6_9.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6):
Source: thunderbird-52.7.0-1.el6_9.src.rpm
i386: thunderbird-52.7.0-1.el6_9.i686.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-52.7.0-1.el6_9.i686.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-52.7.0-1.el6_9.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-52.7.0-1.el6_9.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key


Severity
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:0647-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0647
Issue date: 2018-04-05

Topic

An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow important Red Hat Enterprise memory safety Thunderbird out-of-bounds

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

1555127 - CVE-2018-5125 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 59 and Firefox ESR 52.7 (MFSA 2018-07)

1555128 - CVE-2018-5127 Mozilla: Buffer overflow manipulating SVG animatedPathSegList (MFSA 2018-07)

1555129 - CVE-2018-5129 Mozilla: Out-of-bounds write with malformed IPC messages (MFSA 2018-07)

1555132 - CVE-2018-5144 Mozilla: Integer overflow during Unicode conversion (MFSA 2018-07)

1555133 - CVE-2018-5145 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 52.7 (MFSA 2018-07)

1557221 - CVE-2018-5146 Mozilla: Vorbis audio processing out of bounds write (MFSA 2018-08)

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