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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6: RHSA-2018:2251-01 Important Thunderbird Update

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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 52.9.1.
Security Fix(es):
* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 61, Firefox ESR 60.1, and Firefox ESR 52.9 (CVE-2018-5188)
* Mozilla: Buffer overflow using computed size of canvas element (CVE-2018-12359)
* Mozilla: Use-after-free using focus() (CVE-2018-12360)
* Mozilla: Integer overflow in SSSE3 scaler (CVE-2018-12362)
* Mozilla: Use-after-free when appending DOM nodes (CVE-2018-12363)
* Mozilla: CSRF attacks through 307 redirects and NPAPI plugins (CVE-2018-12364)
* thunderbird: S/MIME and PGP decryption oracles can be built with HTML emails (CVE-2018-12372)
* thunderbird: S/MIME plaintext can be leaked through HTML reply/forward (CVE-2018-12373)
* Mozilla: Compromised IPC child process can list local filenames (CVE-2018-12365)
* Mozilla: Invalid data handling during QCMS transformations (CVE-2018-12366)
* thunderbird: Using form to exfiltrate encrypted mail part by pressing enter in form field (CVE-2018-12374)
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 Alex Gaynor, Christoph Diehl, Christian Holler, Jason Kratzer, David Major, Jon Coppeard, Nicolas B. Pierron, Marcia Knous, Ronald Crane, Nils, F. Alonso (revskills), David Black, and OSS-Fuzz as the original reporters.

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow red hat important thunderbird memory safety email client

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5188 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12359 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12360 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12362 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12363 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12364 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12365 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12366 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12372 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12373 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12374 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-18/

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6):
Source: thunderbird-52.9.1-1.el6.src.rpm
i386: thunderbird-52.9.1-1.el6.i686.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-52.9.1-1.el6.i686.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-52.9.1-1.el6.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-52.9.1-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6):
Source: thunderbird-52.9.1-1.el6.src.rpm
i386: thunderbird-52.9.1-1.el6.i686.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-52.9.1-1.el6.i686.rpm
ppc64: thunderbird-52.9.1-1.el6.ppc64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-52.9.1-1.el6.ppc64.rpm
s390x: thunderbird-52.9.1-1.el6.s390x.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-52.9.1-1.el6.s390x.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-52.9.1-1.el6.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-52.9.1-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6):
Source: thunderbird-52.9.1-1.el6.src.rpm
i386: thunderbird-52.9.1-1.el6.i686.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-52.9.1-1.el6.i686.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-52.9.1-1.el6.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-52.9.1-1.el6.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-2018:2251-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2251
Issue date: 2018-07-24

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 red hat important thunderbird memory safety email client

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

1595024 - CVE-2018-12359 Mozilla: Buffer overflow using computed size of canvas element

1595025 - CVE-2018-12360 Mozilla: Use-after-free using focus()

1595027 - CVE-2018-12362 Mozilla: Integer overflow in SSSE3 scaler

1595028 - CVE-2018-12363 Mozilla: Use-after-free when appending DOM nodes

1595029 - CVE-2018-12364 Mozilla: CSRF attacks through 307 redirects and NPAPI plugins

1595030 - CVE-2018-12365 Mozilla: Compromised IPC child process can list local filenames

1595031 - CVE-2018-12366 Mozilla: Invalid data handling during QCMS transformations

1595040 - CVE-2018-5188 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 61, Firefox ESR 60.1, and Firefox ESR 52.9

1598529 - CVE-2018-12373 thunderbird: S/MIME plaintext can be leaked through HTML reply/forward

1598538 - CVE-2018-12372 thunderbird: S/MIME and PGP decryption oracles can be built with HTML emails

1598543 - CVE-2018-12374 thunderbird: Using form to exfiltrate encrypted mail part by pressing enter in form field

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