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RedHat: RHSA-2019-3756-01 Important Thunderbird Update for DoS Issues

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Calendar Grey November 6, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Firebird obtains a critical security patch for CentOS 7 rectifying several weaknesses.
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 impact of Important

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 68.2.0.
Security Fix(es):
* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 70 and Firefox ESR 68.2 (CVE-2019-11764)
* Mozilla: Use-after-free when creating index updates in IndexedDB (CVE-2019-11757)
* Mozilla: Potentially exploitable crash due to 360 Total Security (CVE-2019-11758)
* Mozilla: Stack buffer overflow in HKDF output (CVE-2019-11759)
* Mozilla: Stack buffer overflow in WebRTC networking (CVE-2019-11760)
* Mozilla: Unintended access to a privileged JSONView object (CVE-2019-11761)
* Mozilla: document.domain-based origin isolation has same-origin-property violation (CVE-2019-11762)
* Mozilla: Incorrect HTML parsing results in XSS bypass technique (CVE-2019-11763)
* expat: heap-based buffer over-read via crafted XML input (CVE-2019-15903)
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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References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11757 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11758 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11759 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11760 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11761 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11762 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11763 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11764 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-15903 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-35/

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6):
Source: thunderbird-68.2.0-2.el6_10.src.rpm
i386: thunderbird-68.2.0-2.el6_10.i686.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-68.2.0-2.el6_10.i686.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-68.2.0-2.el6_10.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-68.2.0-2.el6_10.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6):
Source: thunderbird-68.2.0-2.el6_10.src.rpm
i386: thunderbird-68.2.0-2.el6_10.i686.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-68.2.0-2.el6_10.i686.rpm
ppc64: thunderbird-68.2.0-2.el6_10.ppc64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-68.2.0-2.el6_10.ppc64.rpm
s390x: thunderbird-68.2.0-2.el6_10.s390x.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-68.2.0-2.el6_10.s390x.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-68.2.0-2.el6_10.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-68.2.0-2.el6_10.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6):
Source: thunderbird-68.2.0-2.el6_10.src.rpm
i386: thunderbird-68.2.0-2.el6_10.i686.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-68.2.0-2.el6_10.i686.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-68.2.0-2.el6_10.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-68.2.0-2.el6_10.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-2019:3756-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3756
Issue date: 2019-11-06

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 impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory update red hat important security impact thunderbird mail client

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

1752592 - CVE-2019-15903 expat: heap-based buffer over-read via crafted XML input

1764438 - CVE-2019-11757 Mozilla: Use-after-free when creating index updates in IndexedDB

1764439 - CVE-2019-11758 Mozilla: Potentially exploitable crash due to 360 Total Security

1764440 - CVE-2019-11759 Mozilla: Stack buffer overflow in HKDF output

1764441 - CVE-2019-11760 Mozilla: Stack buffer overflow in WebRTC networking

1764442 - CVE-2019-11761 Mozilla: Unintended access to a privileged JSONView object

1764443 - CVE-2019-11762 Mozilla: document.domain-based origin isolation has same-origin-property violation

1764444 - CVE-2019-11763 Mozilla: Incorrect HTML parsing results in XSS bypass technique

1764446 - CVE-2019-11764 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 70 and Firefox ESR 68.2

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