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Red Hat Enterprise 8 RHSA-2021-5045 Important Thunderbird Security Update

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Calendar Grey December 9, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Crucial patch released for Thunderbird on CentOS 8 to resolve significant 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 91.4.0.
Security Fix(es):
* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 95 and Firefox ESR 91.4 (BZ#2030116)
* Mozilla: URL leakage when navigating while executing asynchronous function (CVE-2021-43536)
* Mozilla: Heap buffer overflow when using structured clone (CVE-2021-43537)
* Mozilla: Missing fullscreen and pointer lock notification when requesting both (CVE-2021-43538)
* Mozilla: GC rooting failure when calling wasm instance methods (CVE-2021-43539)
* Mozilla: External protocol handler parameters were unescaped (CVE-2021-43541)
* Mozilla: XMLHttpRequest error codes could have leaked the existence of an external protocol handler (CVE-2021-43542)
* Mozilla: Bypass of CSP sandbox directive when embedding (CVE-2021-43543)
* Mozilla: JavaScript unexpectedly enabled for the composition area (CVE-2021-43528)
* Mozilla: Denial of Service when using the Location API in a loop (CVE-2021-43545)
* Mozilla: Cursor spoofing could overlay user interface when native cursor is zoomed (CVE-2021-43546)
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

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References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-43528 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-43536 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-43537 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-43538 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-43539 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-43541 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-43542 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-43543 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-43545 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-43546 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: thunderbird-91.4.0-2.el8_5.src.rpm
aarch64: thunderbird-91.4.0-2.el8_5.aarch64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-91.4.0-2.el8_5.aarch64.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-91.4.0-2.el8_5.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: thunderbird-91.4.0-2.el8_5.ppc64le.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-91.4.0-2.el8_5.ppc64le.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-91.4.0-2.el8_5.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: thunderbird-91.4.0-2.el8_5.s390x.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-91.4.0-2.el8_5.s390x.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-91.4.0-2.el8_5.s390x.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-91.4.0-2.el8_5.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-91.4.0-2.el8_5.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-91.4.0-2.el8_5.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-2021:5045-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:5045
Issue date: 2021-12-09

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 fix red hat enterprise important advisory thunderbird update software impact

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2030105 - CVE-2021-43536 Mozilla: URL leakage when navigating while executing asynchronous function

2030106 - CVE-2021-43537 Mozilla: Heap buffer overflow when using structured clone

2030109 - CVE-2021-43538 Mozilla: Missing fullscreen and pointer lock notification when requesting both

2030110 - CVE-2021-43539 Mozilla: GC rooting failure when calling wasm instance methods

2030111 - CVE-2021-43541 Mozilla: External protocol handler parameters were unescaped

2030112 - CVE-2021-43542 Mozilla: XMLHttpRequest error codes could have leaked the existence of an external protocol handler

2030113 - CVE-2021-43543 Mozilla: Bypass of CSP sandbox directive when embedding

2030114 - CVE-2021-43545 Mozilla: Denial of Service when using the Location API in a loop

2030115 - CVE-2021-43546 Mozilla: Cursor spoofing could overlay user interface when native cursor is zoomed

2030116 - Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 95 and Firefox ESR 91.4

2030137 - CVE-2021-43528 Mozilla: JavaScript unexpectedly enabled for the composition area

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