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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: RHSA-2019-1623-01 Important: Thunderbird Update

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Calendar Grey June 27, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Critical: Update for Mozilla Thunderbird on RHEL 8 introduces essential patches addressing multiple security vulnerabilities.
An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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 60.7.2.
Security Fix(es):
* Mozilla: Type confusion in Array.pop (CVE-2019-11707)
* thunderbird: Stack buffer overflow in icalrecur_add_bydayrules in icalrecur.c (CVE-2019-11705)
* Mozilla: Sandbox escape using Prompt:Open (CVE-2019-11708)
* thunderbird: Heap buffer over read in icalparser.c parser_get_next_char (CVE-2019-11703)
* thunderbird: Heap buffer overflow in icalmemory_strdup_and_dequote function in icalvalue.c (CVE-2019-11704)
* thunderbird: Type confusion in icaltimezone_get_vtimezone_properties function in icalproperty.c (CVE-2019-11706)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update important red hat enterprise thunderbird stack overflow

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11703 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11704 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11705 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11706 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11707 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11708 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: thunderbird-60.7.2-2.el8_0.src.rpm
ppc64le: thunderbird-60.7.2-2.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-60.7.2-2.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-60.7.2-2.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-60.7.2-2.el8_0.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-60.7.2-2.el8_0.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-60.7.2-2.el8_0.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-2019:1623-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1623
Issue date: 2019-06-27

Topic

An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.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 software update important red hat enterprise thunderbird stack overflow

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - ppc64le, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1720001 - CVE-2019-11703 libical: Heap buffer over read in icalparser.c parser_get_next_char

1720006 - CVE-2019-11704 libical: Heap buffer overflow in icalmemory_strdup_and_dequote function in icalvalue.c

1720008 - CVE-2019-11705 libical: Stack buffer overflow in icalrecur_add_bydayrules in icalrecur.c

1720011 - CVE-2019-11706 libical: Type confusion in icaltimezone_get_vtimezone_properties function in icalproperty.c

1721789 - CVE-2019-11707 Mozilla: Type confusion in Array.pop

1722673 - CVE-2019-11708 Mozilla: Sandbox escape using Prompt:Open

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