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RedHat: RHSA-2019-0160-01 Important Severity Thunderbird Buffer Overflow

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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 60.4.0.
Security Fix(es):
* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 64 and Firefox ESR 60.4 (CVE-2018-12405)
* chromium-browser, firefox: Memory corruption in Angle (CVE-2018-17466)
* Mozilla: Use-after-free with select element (CVE-2018-18492)
* Mozilla: Buffer overflow in accelerated 2D canvas with Skia (CVE-2018-18493)
* Mozilla: Same-origin policy violation using location attribute and performance.getEntries to steal cross-origin URLs (CVE-2018-18494)
* Mozilla: Integer overflow when calculating buffer sizes for images (CVE-2018-18498)
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, Diego Calleja, Andrew McCreight, Jon Coppeard, Natalia Csoregi, Nicolas B. Pierron, Tyson Smith, Nils, Atte Kettunen, James Lee of Kryptos Logic, and r as the original reporters.

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow red hat important thunderbird memory safety

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12405 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-17466 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-18492 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-18493 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-18494 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-18498 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-31/

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: thunderbird-60.4.0-1.el7_6.src.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-60.4.0-1.el7_6.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-60.4.0-1.el7_6.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7):
Source: thunderbird-60.4.0-1.el7_6.src.rpm
ppc64le: thunderbird-60.4.0-1.el7_6.ppc64le.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-60.4.0-1.el7_6.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-60.4.0-1.el7_6.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-60.4.0-1.el7_6.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM and IBM Power LE (POWER9) Server Optional (v. 7):
Source: thunderbird-60.4.0-1.el7_6.src.rpm
aarch64: thunderbird-60.4.0-1.el7_6.aarch64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-60.4.0-1.el7_6.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: thunderbird-60.4.0-1.el7_6.ppc64le.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-60.4.0-1.el7_6.ppc64le.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7):
Source: thunderbird-60.4.0-1.el7_6.src.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-60.4.0-1.el7_6.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-60.4.0-1.el7_6.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-2019:0160-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0160
Issue date: 2019-01-24

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 buffer overflow red hat important thunderbird memory safety

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

1640102 - CVE-2018-17466 chromium-browser, firefox: Memory corruption in Angle

1658397 - CVE-2018-12405 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 64 and Firefox ESR 60.4

1658399 - CVE-2018-18492 Mozilla: Use-after-free with select element

1658400 - CVE-2018-18493 Mozilla: Buffer overflow in accelerated 2D canvas with Skia

1658401 - CVE-2018-18494 Mozilla: Same-origin policy violation using location attribute and performance.getEntries to steal cross-origin URLs

1658402 - CVE-2018-18498 Mozilla: Integer overflow when calculating buffer sizes for images

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