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Red Hat: RHSA-2020-5398 Important: Thunderbird Stack Overflow Issue

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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 impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability
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====================================================================                   Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis:          Important: thunderbird security update
Advisory ID:       RHSA-2020:5398-01
Product:           Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL:      https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5398
Issue date:        2020-12-14
CVE Names:         CVE-2020-26970 
====================================================================
1. Summary:

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 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.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, x86_64

3. Description:

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.

This update upgrades Thunderbird to version 78.5.1.

Security Fix(es):

* Mozilla: Stack overflow due to incorrect parsing of SMTP server response
codes (CVE-2020-26970)

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.

4. 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.

5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

1903443 - CVE-2020-26970 Mozilla: Stack overflow due to incorrect parsing of SMTP server response codes

6. Package List:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):

Source:
thunderbird-78.5.1-1.el8_3.src.rpm

aarch64:
thunderbird-78.5.1-1.el8_3.aarch64.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-78.5.1-1.el8_3.aarch64.rpm
thunderbird-debugsource-78.5.1-1.el8_3.aarch64.rpm

ppc64le:
thunderbird-78.5.1-1.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-78.5.1-1.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm
thunderbird-debugsource-78.5.1-1.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm

x86_64:
thunderbird-78.5.1-1.el8_3.x86_64.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-78.5.1-1.el8_3.x86_64.rpm
thunderbird-debugsource-78.5.1-1.el8_3.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/

7. References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-26970
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

8. Contact:

The Red Hat security contact is . More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

Copyright 2020 Red Hat, Inc.
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Red Hat: RHSA-2020-5398 Important: Thunderbird Stack Overflow Issue

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Update to Thunderbird 78.5.1 for Red Hat Linux to fix a vital security issue and enhance your system's protection.
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 78.5.1.
Security Fix(es):
* Mozilla: Stack overflow due to incorrect parsing of SMTP server response codes (CVE-2020-26970)
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.

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-26970 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: thunderbird-78.5.1-1.el8_3.src.rpm
aarch64: thunderbird-78.5.1-1.el8_3.aarch64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-78.5.1-1.el8_3.aarch64.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-78.5.1-1.el8_3.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: thunderbird-78.5.1-1.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-78.5.1-1.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-78.5.1-1.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-78.5.1-1.el8_3.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-78.5.1-1.el8_3.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-78.5.1-1.el8_3.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
important
Lowest
Low
Medium
High
Critical

Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:5398-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue date: 2020-12-14

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.

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1903443 - CVE-2020-26970 Mozilla: Stack overflow due to incorrect parsing of SMTP server response codes

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