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RedHat: RHSA-2022-0536-01 Important: Thunderbird Update for Linux

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Calendar Grey February 15, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Enhanced Thunderbird for Red Hat Enterprise Linux featuring critical security patches rectifying multiple vulnerabilities.
An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 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 91.6.0.
Security Fix(es):
* Mozilla: Extensions could have bypassed permission confirmation during update (CVE-2022-22754)
* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 97 and Firefox ESR 91.6 (CVE-2022-22764)
* Mozilla: Drag and dropping an image could have resulted in the dropped object being an executable (CVE-2022-22756)
* Mozilla: Sandboxed iframes could have executed script if the parent appended elements (CVE-2022-22759)
* Mozilla: Cross-Origin responses could be distinguished between script and non-script content-types (CVE-2022-22760)
* Mozilla: frame-ancestors Content Security Policy directive was not enforced for framed extension pages (CVE-2022-22761)
* Mozilla: Script Execution during invalid object state (CVE-2022-22763)
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-2022-22754 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-22756 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-22759 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-22760 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-22761 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-22763 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-22764 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.4):
Source: thunderbird-91.6.0-1.el8_4.src.rpm
aarch64: thunderbird-91.6.0-1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-91.6.0-1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-91.6.0-1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: thunderbird-91.6.0-1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-91.6.0-1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-91.6.0-1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: thunderbird-91.6.0-1.el8_4.s390x.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-91.6.0-1.el8_4.s390x.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-91.6.0-1.el8_4.s390x.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-91.6.0-1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-91.6.0-1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-91.6.0-1.el8_4.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-2022:0536-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue date: 2022-02-15

Topic

An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4Extended 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.

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.4) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2053236 - CVE-2022-22754 Mozilla: Extensions could have bypassed permission confirmation during update

2053237 - CVE-2022-22756 Mozilla: Drag and dropping an image could have resulted in the dropped object being an executable

2053238 - CVE-2022-22760 Mozilla: Cross-Origin responses could be distinguished between script and non-script content-types

2053239 - CVE-2022-22761 Mozilla: frame-ancestors Content Security Policy directive was not enforced for framed extension pages

2053240 - CVE-2022-22763 Mozilla: Script Execution during invalid object state

2053242 - CVE-2022-22759 Mozilla: Sandboxed iframes could have executed script if the parent appended elements

2053243 - CVE-2022-22764 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 97 and Firefox ESR 91.6

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