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Red Hat: RHSA-2018-1725-01 Important: Thunderbird Security Update

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Calendar Grey May 24, 2018
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Red Hat releases an essential security patch for Thunderbird, addressing multiple memory vulnerability issues and potential exploitation risks.
An update for thunderbird is now available for 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 52.8.0.
Security Fix(es):
* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 60 and Firefox ESR 52.8 (CVE-2018-5150)
* Mozilla: Backport critical security fixes in Skia (CVE-2018-5183)
* Mozilla: Use-after-free with SVG animations and clip paths (CVE-2018-5154)
* Mozilla: Use-after-free with SVG animations and text paths (CVE-2018-5155)
* Mozilla: Integer overflow and out-of-bounds write in Skia (CVE-2018-5159)
* Mozilla: Full plaintext recovery in S/MIME via chosen-ciphertext attack (CVE-2018-5184)
* Mozilla: Hang via malformed headers (CVE-2018-5161)
* Mozilla: Encrypted mail leaks plaintext through src attribute (CVE-2018-5162)
* Mozilla: Lightweight themes can be installed without user interaction (CVE-2018-5168)
* Mozilla: Filename spoofing for external attachments (CVE-2018-5170)
* Mozilla: Buffer overflow during UTF-8 to Unicode string conversion through legacy extension (CVE-2018-5178)
* Mozilla: Leaking plaintext through HTML forms (CVE-2018-5185)
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 CVE-2018-5150, CVE-2018-5154, CVE-2018-5155, CVE-2018-5159, CVE-2018-5168, CVE-2018-5178, and CVE-2018-5183. Upstream acknowledges Christoph Diehl, Randell Jesup, Tyson Smith, Alex Gaynor, Ronald Crane, Julian Hector, Kannan Vijayan, Jason Kratzer, Mozilla Developers, Nils, Ivan Fratric, Wladimir Palant, and Root Object as the original reporters.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat update security issues memory safety thunderbird update importance

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5150 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5154 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5155 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5159 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5161 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5162 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5168 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5170 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5178 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5183 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5184 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5185 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: thunderbird-52.8.0-1.el7_5.src.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-52.8.0-1.el7_5.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-52.8.0-1.el7_5.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7):
Source: thunderbird-52.8.0-1.el7_5.src.rpm
ppc64le: thunderbird-52.8.0-1.el7_5.ppc64le.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-52.8.0-1.el7_5.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-52.8.0-1.el7_5.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-52.8.0-1.el7_5.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM and IBM Power LE (POWER9) Server Optional (v. 7):
Source: thunderbird-52.8.0-1.el7_5.src.rpm
aarch64: thunderbird-52.8.0-1.el7_5.aarch64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-52.8.0-1.el7_5.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: thunderbird-52.8.0-1.el7_5.ppc64le.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-52.8.0-1.el7_5.ppc64le.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7):
Source: thunderbird-52.8.0-1.el7_5.src.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-52.8.0-1.el7_5.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-52.8.0-1.el7_5.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


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:1725-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1725
Issue date: 2018-05-24

Topic

An update for thunderbird is now available for 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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat update security issues memory safety thunderbird update importance

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - ppc64le, x86_64

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM and IBM Power LE (POWER9) Server Optional (v. 7) - aarch64, ppc64le

Bugs Fixed

1576250 - CVE-2018-5150 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 60 and Firefox ESR 52.8

1576255 - CVE-2018-5154 Mozilla: Use-after-free with SVG animations and clip paths

1576257 - CVE-2018-5155 Mozilla: Use-after-free with SVG animations and text paths

1576260 - CVE-2018-5159 Mozilla: Integer overflow and out-of-bounds write in Skia

1576269 - CVE-2018-5168 Mozilla: Lightweight themes can be installed without user interaction

1576278 - CVE-2018-5178 Mozilla: Buffer overflow during UTF-8 to Unicode string conversion through legacy extension

1576283 - CVE-2018-5183 Mozilla: Backport critical security fixes in Skia

1580236 - CVE-2018-5184 Mozilla: Full plaintext recovery in S/MIME via chosen-ciphertext attack

1580237 - CVE-2018-5161 Mozilla: Hang via malformed headers1580239 - CVE-2018-5162 Mozilla: Encrypted mail leaks plaintext through src attribute

1580240 - CVE-2018-5170 Mozilla: Filename spoofing for external attachments

1580241 - CVE-2018-5185 Mozilla: Leaking plaintext through HTML forms

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