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Red Hat 6 Thunderbird Major Security Update RHSA-2018-3531-01

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Calendar Grey November 9, 2018
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Patch for Red Hat Thunderbird deemed Important, addressing security flaws affecting memory integrity as well as other miscellaneous issues.
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 60.3.0.
Security Fix(es):
* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 63 and Firefox ESR 60.3 (CVE-2018-12390)
* Mozilla: Crash with nested event loops (CVE-2018-12392)
* Mozilla: Integer overflow during Unicode conversion while loading JavaScript (CVE-2018-12393)
* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 60.3 (CVE-2018-12389)
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 Christian Holler, Bob Owen, Boris Zbarsky, Calixte Denizet, Jason Kratzer, Jed Davis, Taegeon Lee, Philipp, Ronald Crane, Raul Gurzau, Gary Kwong, Tyson Smith, Raymond Forbes, Bogdan Tara, Nils, r, and Daniel Veditz as the original reporters.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat software update important thunderbird memory integrity

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12389 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12390 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12392 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12393 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6):
Source: thunderbird-60.3.0-1.el6.src.rpm
i386: thunderbird-60.3.0-1.el6.i686.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-60.3.0-1.el6.i686.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-60.3.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-60.3.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6):
Source: thunderbird-60.3.0-1.el6.src.rpm
i386: thunderbird-60.3.0-1.el6.i686.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-60.3.0-1.el6.i686.rpm
ppc64: thunderbird-60.3.0-1.el6.ppc64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-60.3.0-1.el6.ppc64.rpm
s390x: thunderbird-60.3.0-1.el6.s390x.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-60.3.0-1.el6.s390x.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-60.3.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-60.3.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6):
Source: thunderbird-60.3.0-1.el6.src.rpm
i386: thunderbird-60.3.0-1.el6.i686.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-60.3.0-1.el6.i686.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-60.3.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-60.3.0-1.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-2018:3531-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3531
Issue date: 2018-11-08
Updated on: 2018-11-09

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 Red Hat software update important thunderbird memory integrity

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

1642179 - CVE-2018-12389 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 60.3

1642180 - CVE-2018-12390 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 63 and Firefox ESR 60.3

1642182 - CVE-2018-12392 Mozilla: Crash with nested event loops

1642183 - CVE-2018-12393 Mozilla: Integer overflow during Unicode conversion while loading JavaScript

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