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Important Security Fix for ThunderBird in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4

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Calendar Grey September 26, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Critical security enhancement for Thunderbird on RHEL 8.4 implementing multiple patches for known 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 102.3.0.
Security Fix(es):
* Mozilla: Leaking of sensitive information when composing a response to an HTML email with a META refresh tag (CVE-2022-3033)
* Mozilla: Bypassing FeaturePolicy restrictions on transient pages (CVE-2022-40959)
* Mozilla: Data-race when parsing non-UTF-8 URLs in threads (CVE-2022-40960)
* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 105 and Firefox ESR 102.3 (CVE-2022-40962)
* Mozilla: Remote content specified in an HTML document that was nested inside an iframe's srcdoc attribute was not blocked (CVE-2022-3032)
* Mozilla: An iframe element in an HTML email could trigger a network request (CVE-2022-3034)
* Mozilla: Matrix SDK bundled with Thunderbird vulnerable to denial-of-service attack (CVE-2022-36059)
* Mozilla: Bypassing Secure Context restriction for cookies with __Host and __Secure prefix (CVE-2022-40958)
* Mozilla: Content-Security-Policy base-uri bypass (CVE-2022-40956)
* Mozilla: Incoherent instruction cache when building WASM on ARM64 (CVE-2022-40957)
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-2022-3032 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-3033 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-3034 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-36059 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-40956 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-40957 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-40958 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-40959 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-40960 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-40962 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.4):
Source: thunderbird-102.3.0-3.el8_4.src.rpm
aarch64: thunderbird-102.3.0-3.el8_4.aarch64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-102.3.0-3.el8_4.aarch64.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-102.3.0-3.el8_4.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: thunderbird-102.3.0-3.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-102.3.0-3.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-102.3.0-3.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: thunderbird-102.3.0-3.el8_4.s390x.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-102.3.0-3.el8_4.s390x.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-102.3.0-3.el8_4.s390x.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-102.3.0-3.el8_4.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-102.3.0-3.el8_4.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-102.3.0-3.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-2022:6713-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:6713
Issue date: 2022-09-26

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 update security fix important thunderbird email client

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

2123255 - CVE-2022-3032 Mozilla: Remote content specified in an HTML document that was nested inside an iframe's srcdoc attribute was not blocked

2123256 - CVE-2022-3033 Mozilla: Leaking of sensitive information when composing a response to an HTML email with a META refresh tag

2123257 - CVE-2022-3034 Mozilla: An iframe element in an HTML email could trigger a network request

2123258 - CVE-2022-36059 Mozilla: Matrix SDK bundled with Thunderbird vulnerable to denial-of-service attack

2128792 - CVE-2022-40959 Mozilla: Bypassing FeaturePolicy restrictions on transient pages

2128793 - CVE-2022-40960 Mozilla: Data-race when parsing non-UTF-8 URLs in threads

2128794 - CVE-2022-40958 Mozilla: Bypassing Secure Context restriction for cookies with __Host and __Secure prefix

2128795 - CVE-2022-40956 Mozilla: Content-Security-Policy base-uri bypass

2128796 - CVE-2022-40957 Mozilla: Incoherent instruction cache when building WASM on ARM64

2128797 - CVE-2022-40962 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 105 and Firefox ESR 102.3

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