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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: RHSA-2019:1799-01 Important Thunderbird Update

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Calendar Grey July 16, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Crucial patch released for Debian servers tackling severe Firefox vulnerabilities. Installation guidelines provided.
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 60.8.0.
Security Fix(es):
* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 68 and Firefox ESR 60.8 (CVE-2019-11709)
* Mozilla: Sandbox escape via installation of malicious language pack (CVE-2019-9811)
* Mozilla: Script injection within domain through inner window reuse (CVE-2019-11711)
* Mozilla: Cross-origin POST requests can be made with NPAPI plugins by following 308 redirects (CVE-2019-11712)
* Mozilla: Use-after-free with HTTP/2 cached stream (CVE-2019-11713)
* Mozilla: HTML parsing error can contribute to content XSS (CVE-2019-11715)
* Mozilla: Caret character improperly escaped in origins (CVE-2019-11717)
* Mozilla: Same-origin policy treats all files in a directory as having the same-origin (CVE-2019-11730)
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.
Bug Fix(es):
* Thunderbird fails to authenticate with gmail with ssl/tls and OAuth2 (BZ#1725919)

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update bug fix important security impact red hat enterprise thunderbird

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-9811 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11709 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11711 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11712 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11713 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11715 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11717 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11730 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-23/

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: thunderbird-60.8.0-1.el8_0.src.rpm
ppc64le: thunderbird-60.8.0-1.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-60.8.0-1.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-60.8.0-1.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-60.8.0-1.el8_0.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-60.8.0-1.el8_0.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-60.8.0-1.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-2019:1799-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1799
Issue date: 2019-07-16

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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update bug fix important security impact red hat enterprise thunderbird

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

1725919 - Thunderbird fails to authenticate with gmail with ssl/tls and OAuth2

1728430 - CVE-2019-11709 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 68 and Firefox ESR 60.8

1728431 - CVE-2019-11711 Mozilla: Script injection within domain through inner window reuse

1728432 - CVE-2019-11712 Mozilla: Cross-origin POST requests can be made with NPAPI plugins by following 308 redirects

1728433 - CVE-2019-11713 Mozilla: Use-after-free with HTTP/2 cached stream

1728434 - CVE-2019-11715 Mozilla: HTML parsing error can contribute to content XSS

1728435 - CVE-2019-11717 Mozilla: Caret character improperly escaped in origins

1728438 - CVE-2019-11730 Mozilla: Same-origin policy treats all files in a directory as having the same-origin

1728439 - CVE-2019-9811 Mozilla: Sandbox escape via installation of malicious language pack

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