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Red Hat: RHSA-2022:6166-01 Important: Thunderbird Security Update

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Calendar Grey August 24, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Crucial patch released for Thunderbird on Red Hat Enterprise Linux to resolve significant vulnerabilities and enhance protection.
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 91.13.0.
Security Fix(es):
* Mozilla: Address bar spoofing via XSLT error handling (CVE-2022-38472)
* Mozilla: Cross-origin XSLT Documents would have inherited the parent's permissions (CVE-2022-38473)
* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 104 and Firefox ESR 102.2 (CVE-2022-38477)
* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 104, Firefox ESR 102.2, and Firefox ESR 91.13 (CVE-2022-38478)
* Mozilla: Data race and potential use-after-free in PK11_ChangePW (CVE-2022-38476)
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-2022-38472 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-38473 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-38476 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-38477 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-38478 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.4):
Source: thunderbird-91.13.0-1.el8_4.src.rpm
aarch64: thunderbird-91.13.0-1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-91.13.0-1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-91.13.0-1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: thunderbird-91.13.0-1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-91.13.0-1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-91.13.0-1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: thunderbird-91.13.0-1.el8_4.s390x.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-91.13.0-1.el8_4.s390x.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-91.13.0-1.el8_4.s390x.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-91.13.0-1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-91.13.0-1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-91.13.0-1.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-2022:6166-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:6166
Issue date: 2022-08-24

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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory red hat software patch security impact thunderbird memory safety important update

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

2120673 - CVE-2022-38472 Mozilla: Address bar spoofing via XSLT error handling

2120674 - CVE-2022-38473 Mozilla: Cross-origin XSLT Documents would have inherited the parent's permissions

2120678 - CVE-2022-38476 Mozilla: Data race and potential use-after-free in PK11_ChangePW

2120695 - CVE-2022-38477 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 104 and Firefox ESR 102.2

2120696 - CVE-2022-38478 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 104, Firefox ESR 102.2, and Firefox ESR 91.13

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