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Red Hat: RHSA-2019-2774-01 Important: Thunderbird Security Update

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Calendar Grey September 16, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Update for Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Critical Firefox security patch resolves multiple memory vulnerability concerns.
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 60.9.0.
Security Fix(es):
* Mozilla: Covert Content Attack on S/MIME encryption using a crafted multipart/alternative message (CVE-2019-11739)
* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 69, Firefox ESR 68.1, and Firefox ESR 60.9 (CVE-2019-11740)
* Mozilla: Same-origin policy violation with SVG filters and canvas to steal cross-origin images (CVE-2019-11742)
* Mozilla: XSS by breaking out of title and textarea elements using innerHTML (CVE-2019-11744)
* Mozilla: Use-after-free while manipulating video (CVE-2019-11746)
* Mozilla: Use-after-free while extracting a key value in IndexedDB (CVE-2019-11752)
* Mozilla: Cross-origin access to unload event attributes (CVE-2019-11743)
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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat important thunderbird memory safety mail client update cross-origin access

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11739 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11740 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11742 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11743 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11744 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11746 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11752 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: thunderbird-60.9.0-2.el8_0.src.rpm
ppc64le: thunderbird-60.9.0-2.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-60.9.0-2.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-60.9.0-2.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-60.9.0-2.el8_0.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-60.9.0-2.el8_0.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-60.9.0-2.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-2019:2774-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2774
Issue date: 2019-09-16

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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat important thunderbird memory safety mail client update cross-origin access

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

1748652 - CVE-2019-11740 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 69, Firefox ESR 68.1, Firefox ESR 60.9, Thunderbird 68.1, and Thunderbird 60.9

1748653 - CVE-2019-11742 Mozilla: Same-origin policy violation with SVG filters and canvas to steal cross-origin images

1748654 - CVE-2019-11743 Mozilla: Cross-origin access to unload event attributes

1748655 - CVE-2019-11744 Mozilla: XSS by breaking out of title and textarea elements using innerHTML

1748656 - CVE-2019-11746 Mozilla: Use-after-free while manipulating video

1748657 - CVE-2019-11752 Mozilla: Use-after-free while extracting a key value in IndexedDB

1752307 - CVE-2019-11739 Mozilla: Covert Content Attack on S/MIME encryption using a crafted multipart/alternative message

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