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RedHat: RHSA-2020-0919-01 Important: Thunderbird Security Update

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Calendar Grey March 23, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Crucial security patch released for Thunderbird on Red Hat Enterprise Linux guarantees improved defense against recognized 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 68.6.0.
Security Fix(es):
* Mozilla: Use-after-free when removing data about origins (CVE-2020-6805)
* Mozilla: BodyStream::OnInputStreamReady was missing protections against state confusion (CVE-2020-6806)
* Mozilla: Use-after-free in cubeb during stream destruction (CVE-2020-6807)
* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 74 and Firefox ESR 68.6 (CVE-2020-6814)
* Mozilla: Out of bounds reads in sctp_load_addresses_from_init (CVE-2019-20503)
* Mozilla: Devtools' 'Copy as cURL' feature did not fully escape website-controlled data, potentially leading to command injection (CVE-2020-6811)
* Mozilla: The names of AirPods with personally identifiable information were exposed to websites with camera or microphone permission (CVE-2020-6812)
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 update important software thunderbird mail client

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-20503 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-6805 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-6806 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-6807 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-6811 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-6812 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-6814 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: thunderbird-68.6.0-1.el8_1.src.rpm
ppc64le: thunderbird-68.6.0-1.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-68.6.0-1.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-68.6.0-1.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-68.6.0-1.el8_1.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-68.6.0-1.el8_1.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-68.6.0-1.el8_1.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-2020:0919-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0919
Issue date: 2020-03-23

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 update important software thunderbird mail client

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

1812199 - CVE-2020-6805 Mozilla: Use-after-free when removing data about origins

1812200 - CVE-2020-6806 Mozilla: BodyStream::OnInputStreamReady was missing protections against state confusion

1812201 - CVE-2020-6807 Mozilla: Use-after-free in cubeb during stream destruction

1812202 - CVE-2020-6811 Mozilla: Devtools' 'Copy as cURL' feature did not fully escape website-controlled data, potentially leading to command injection

1812203 - CVE-2019-20503 Mozilla: Out of bounds reads in sctp_load_addresses_from_init

1812204 - CVE-2020-6812 Mozilla: The names of AirPods with personally identifiable information were exposed to websites with camera or microphone permission

1812205 - CVE-2020-6814 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 74 and Firefox ESR 68.6

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