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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 RHSA-2022:1727-01 Critical: Thunderbird Update

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Calendar Grey May 5, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat has issued an important security patch for Thunderbird on RHEL 8.1 that addresses various critical vulnerabilities.
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 91.9.0.
Security Fix(es):
* Mozilla: Bypassing permission prompt in nested browsing contexts (CVE-2022-29909)
* Mozilla: iframe Sandbox bypass (CVE-2022-29911)
* Mozilla: Fullscreen notification bypass using popups (CVE-2022-29914)
* Mozilla: Leaking browser history with CSS variables (CVE-2022-29916)
* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 100 and Firefox ESR 91.9 (CVE-2022-29917)
* Mozilla: Reader mode bypassed SameSite cookies (CVE-2022-29912)
* Mozilla: Speech Synthesis feature not properly disabled (CVE-2022-29913)
* Mozilla: Incorrect security status shown after viewing an attached email (CVE-2022-1520)
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 critical Red Hat Enterprise Linux patch important mail client Thunderbird

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-1520 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-29909 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-29911 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-29912 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-29913 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-29914 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-29916 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-29917 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.1):
Source: thunderbird-91.9.0-3.el8_1.src.rpm
ppc64le: thunderbird-91.9.0-3.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-91.9.0-3.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-91.9.0-3.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-91.9.0-3.el8_1.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-91.9.0-3.el8_1.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-91.9.0-3.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-2022:1727-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1727
Issue date: 2022-05-05

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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical Red Hat Enterprise Linux patch important mail client Thunderbird

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.1) - ppc64le, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2081468 - CVE-2022-29914 Mozilla: Fullscreen notification bypass using popups

2081469 - CVE-2022-29909 Mozilla: Bypassing permission prompt in nested browsing contexts

2081470 - CVE-2022-29916 Mozilla: Leaking browser history with CSS variables

2081471 - CVE-2022-29911 Mozilla: iframe Sandbox bypass

2081472 - CVE-2022-29912 Mozilla: Reader mode bypassed SameSite cookies

2081473 - CVE-2022-29917 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 100 and Firefox ESR 91.9

2082037 - CVE-2022-1520 Mozilla: Incorrect security status shown after viewing an attached email

2082038 - CVE-2022-29913 Mozilla: Speech Synthesis feature not properly disabled

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