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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6: RHSA-2019-4205-01 Important: Thunderbird Update

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Calendar Grey December 11, 2019
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Debian has announced a significant security patch for Firefox, targeting severe vulnerabilities related to memory integrity and buffer overflow.
An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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 68.3.0.
Security Fix(es):
* Mozilla: Use-after-free in worker destruction (CVE-2019-17008)
* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 71 and Firefox ESR 68.3 (CVE-2019-17012)
* Mozilla: Buffer overflow in plain text serializer (CVE-2019-17005)
* Mozilla: Use-after-free when performing device orientation checks (CVE-2019-17010)
* Mozilla: Use-after-free when retrieving a document in antitracking (CVE-2019-17011)
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 buffer overflow red hat important thunderbird memory safety use-after-free

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-17005 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-17008 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-17010 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-17011 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-17012 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-38/

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6):
Source: thunderbird-68.3.0-3.el6_10.src.rpm
i386: thunderbird-68.3.0-3.el6_10.i686.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-68.3.0-3.el6_10.i686.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-68.3.0-3.el6_10.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-68.3.0-3.el6_10.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6):
Source: thunderbird-68.3.0-3.el6_10.src.rpm
i386: thunderbird-68.3.0-3.el6_10.i686.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-68.3.0-3.el6_10.i686.rpm
ppc64: thunderbird-68.3.0-3.el6_10.ppc64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-68.3.0-3.el6_10.ppc64.rpm
s390x: thunderbird-68.3.0-3.el6_10.s390x.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-68.3.0-3.el6_10.s390x.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-68.3.0-3.el6_10.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-68.3.0-3.el6_10.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6):
Source: thunderbird-68.3.0-3.el6_10.src.rpm
i386: thunderbird-68.3.0-3.el6_10.i686.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-68.3.0-3.el6_10.i686.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-68.3.0-3.el6_10.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-68.3.0-3.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


Severity
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:4205-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4205
Issue date: 2019-12-11

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 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 use-after-free

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

1779431 - CVE-2019-17008 Mozilla: Use-after-free in worker destruction

1779434 - CVE-2019-17010 Mozilla: Use-after-free when performing device orientation checks

1779435 - CVE-2019-17005 Mozilla: Buffer overflow in plain text serializer

1779436 - CVE-2019-17011 Mozilla: Use-after-free when retrieving a document in antitracking

1779437 - CVE-2019-17012 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 71 and Firefox ESR 68.3

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