Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 764
Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 764

Red Hat: RHSA-2021-2882 Important: Thunderbird Security Issue

red hat
Calendar Grey July 26, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Crucial thunderbird security patch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 tackling several vulnerabilities with remedies and updates.
An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Extended Update Support

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 78.12.0.
Security Fix(es):
* Mozilla: IMAP server responses sent by a MITM prior to STARTTLS could be processed (CVE-2021-29969)
* Mozilla: Use-after-free in accessibility features of a document (CVE-2021-29970)
* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 90 and Firefox ESR 78.12 (CVE-2021-29976)
* chromium-browser: Out of bounds write in ANGLE (CVE-2021-30547)
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 security issue software update important Red Hat Enterprise thunderbird mail client

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-29969 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-29970 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-29976 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-30547 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.1):
Source: thunderbird-78.12.0-2.el8_1.src.rpm
ppc64le: thunderbird-78.12.0-2.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-78.12.0-2.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-78.12.0-2.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-78.12.0-2.el8_1.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-78.12.0-2.el8_1.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-78.12.0-2.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


Severity
important
Lowest
Low
Medium
High
Critical

Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:2882-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:2882
Issue date: 2021-07-26

Topic

An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1Extended Update Support.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 security issue software update important Red Hat Enterprise thunderbird mail client

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.1) - ppc64le, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1970109 - CVE-2021-30547 chromium-browser: Out of bounds write in ANGLE

1982013 - CVE-2021-29970 Mozilla: Use-after-free in accessibility features of a document

1982014 - CVE-2021-29976 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 90 and Firefox ESR 78.12

1982015 - CVE-2021-29969 Mozilla: IMAP server responses sent by a MITM prior to STARTTLS could be processed

Get the latest News and Insights

Get the latest Linux and open source security news straight to your inbox.

Your message here