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RedHat: RHSA-2022-0850-01 Critical: Thunderbird Vulnerability Issues

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Calendar Grey March 14, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 enhances Thunderbird security through a crucial advisory addressing various vulnerabilities and corrective measures.
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 91.7.0.
Security Fix(es):
* Mozilla: Use-after-free in XSLT parameter processing (CVE-2022-26485)
* Mozilla: Use-after-free in WebGPU IPC Framework (CVE-2022-26486)
* expat: Malformed 2- and 3-byte UTF-8 sequences can lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2022-25235)
* expat: Namespace-separator characters in "xmlns[:prefix]" attribute values can lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2022-25236)
* expat: Integer overflow in storeRawNames() (CVE-2022-25315)
* Mozilla: Use-after-free in text reflows (CVE-2022-26381)
* Mozilla: Browser window spoof using fullscreen mode (CVE-2022-26383)
* Mozilla: iframe allow-scripts sandbox bypass (CVE-2022-26384)
* Mozilla: Time-of-check time-of-use bug when verifying add-on signatures (CVE-2022-26387)
* thunderbird: Crafted email could trigger an out-of-bounds write (CVE-2022-0566)
* Mozilla: Temporary files downloaded to /tmp and accessible by other local users (CVE-2022-26386)
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 software update arbitrary code execution Red Hat Enterprise Linux important security flaw Thunderbird

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-0566 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-25235 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-25236 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-25315 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-26381 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-26383 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-26384 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-26386 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-26387 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-26485 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-26486 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: thunderbird-91.7.0-2.el8_5.src.rpm
aarch64: thunderbird-91.7.0-2.el8_5.aarch64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-91.7.0-2.el8_5.aarch64.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-91.7.0-2.el8_5.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: thunderbird-91.7.0-2.el8_5.ppc64le.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-91.7.0-2.el8_5.ppc64le.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-91.7.0-2.el8_5.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: thunderbird-91.7.0-2.el8_5.s390x.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-91.7.0-2.el8_5.s390x.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-91.7.0-2.el8_5.s390x.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-91.7.0-2.el8_5.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-91.7.0-2.el8_5.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-91.7.0-2.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-2022:0845-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:0845
Issue date: 2022-03-14

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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory software update arbitrary code execution Red Hat Enterprise Linux important security flaw Thunderbird

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

2055591 - CVE-2022-0566 thunderbird: Crafted email could trigger an out-of-bounds write

2056363 - CVE-2022-25315 expat: Integer overflow in storeRawNames()

2056366 - CVE-2022-25235 expat: Malformed 2- and 3-byte UTF-8 sequences can lead to arbitrary code execution

2056370 - CVE-2022-25236 expat: Namespace-separator characters in "xmlns[:prefix]" attribute values can lead to arbitrary code execution

2061735 - CVE-2022-26486 Mozilla: Use-after-free in WebGPU IPC Framework

2061736 - CVE-2022-26485 Mozilla: Use-after-free in XSLT parameter processing

2062220 - CVE-2022-26383 Mozilla: Browser window spoof using fullscreen mode

2062221 - CVE-2022-26384 Mozilla: iframe allow-scripts sandbox bypass

2062222 - CVE-2022-26387 Mozilla: Time-of-check time-of-use bug when verifying add-on signatures

2062223 - CVE-2022-26381 Mozilla: Use-after-free in text reflows

2062224 - CVE-2022-26386 Mozilla: Temporary files downloaded to /tmp and accessible by other local users

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