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Red Hat 8.1: RHSA-2022:0847-01 Thunderbird Important Use-After-Free

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Calendar Grey March 14, 2022
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A vital upgrade for the Thunderbird mail application has been launched for Fedora Linux, tackling significant security vulnerabilities and improving user protection.
An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Update Services for SAP Solutions

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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory update software patch Red Hat Enterprise Linux important thunderbird email client

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 E4S (v. 8.1):
Source: thunderbird-91.7.0-2.el8_1.src.rpm
ppc64le: thunderbird-91.7.0-2.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-91.7.0-2.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-91.7.0-2.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-91.7.0-2.el8_1.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-91.7.0-2.el8_1.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-91.7.0-2.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/


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:0847-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:0847
Issue date: 2022-03-14

Topic

An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1Update Services for SAP Solutions.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 update software patch Red Hat Enterprise Linux important thunderbird email client

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.1) - ppc64le, 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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