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RedHat: RHSA-2020-3633-01 Important: Thunderbird Security Update

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Calendar Grey September 7, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Essential thunderbird security patch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux aimed at bolstering your email client safety through vital corrections.
An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions

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 68.12.0.
Security Fix(es):
* Mozilla: Attacker-induced prompt for extension installation (CVE-2020-15664)
* Mozilla: Use-After-Free when aborting an operation (CVE-2020-15669)
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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Topics Covered

security advisory update red hat apache important thunderbird mail client

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-15664 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-15669 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.0):
Source: thunderbird-68.12.0-1.el8_0.src.rpm
ppc64le: thunderbird-68.12.0-1.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-68.12.0-1.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-68.12.0-1.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-68.12.0-1.el8_0.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-68.12.0-1.el8_0.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-68.12.0-1.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-2020:3633-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:3633
Issue date: 2020-09-07

Topic

An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0Update Services for SAP Solutions.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 update red hat apache important thunderbird mail client

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.0) - ppc64le, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1872531 - CVE-2020-15664 Mozilla: Attacker-induced prompt for extension installation

1872532 - CVE-2020-15669 Mozilla: Use-After-Free when aborting an operation

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