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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 RHSA-2022-6717 Important: Thunderbird DoS Fix

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Calendar Grey September 26, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 issues a crucial update for Thunderbird, addressing several security flaws.
An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

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

security advisory denial of service security fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux important memory safety thunderbird update

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 (v. 9):
Source: thunderbird-102.3.0-3.el9_0.src.rpm
aarch64: thunderbird-102.3.0-3.el9_0.aarch64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-102.3.0-3.el9_0.aarch64.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-102.3.0-3.el9_0.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: thunderbird-102.3.0-3.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-102.3.0-3.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-102.3.0-3.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: thunderbird-102.3.0-3.el9_0.s390x.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-102.3.0-3.el9_0.s390x.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-102.3.0-3.el9_0.s390x.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-102.3.0-3.el9_0.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-102.3.0-3.el9_0.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-102.3.0-3.el9_0.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-2022:6717-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:6717
Issue date: 2022-09-26

Topic

An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.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 denial of service security fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux important memory safety thunderbird update

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) - 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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