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Red Hat: RHSA-2022-7183 Important: Thunderbird Security Fix

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Calendar Grey October 25, 2022
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Ubuntu has announced a critical patch for Firefox, tackling several weaknesses that pose a risk to its users.
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 102.4.0.
Security Fix(es):
* Mozilla: Matrix SDK bundled with Thunderbird vulnerable to an impersonation attack by malicious server administrators (CVE-2022-39249)
* Mozilla: Matrix SDK bundled with Thunderbird vulnerable to a device verification attack (CVE-2022-39250)
* Mozilla: Matrix SDK bundled with Thunderbird vulnerable to an impersonation attack (CVE-2022-39251)
* Mozilla: Same-origin policy violation could have leaked cross-origin URLs (CVE-2022-42927)
* Mozilla: Memory Corruption in JS Engine (CVE-2022-42928)
* Mozilla: Matrix SDK bundled with Thunderbird vulnerable to a data corruption issue (CVE-2022-39236)
* Mozilla: Denial of Service via window.print (CVE-2022-42929)
* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 102.4 and Thunderbird 102.4 (CVE-2022-42932)
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 Red Hat DoS memory corruption important thunderbird impersonation

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-39236 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-39249 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-39250 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-39251 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-42927 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-42928 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-42929 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-42932 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.1):
Source: thunderbird-102.4.0-1.el8_1.src.rpm
ppc64le: thunderbird-102.4.0-1.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-102.4.0-1.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-102.4.0-1.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-102.4.0-1.el8_1.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-102.4.0-1.el8_1.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-102.4.0-1.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-2022:7183-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:7183
Issue date: 2022-10-25

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 Red Hat DoS memory corruption important thunderbird impersonation

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

2135391 - CVE-2022-39236 Mozilla: Matrix SDK bundled with Thunderbird vulnerable to a data corruption issue

2135393 - CVE-2022-39249 Mozilla: Matrix SDK bundled with Thunderbird vulnerable to an impersonation attack by malicious server administrators2135395 - CVE-2022-39250 Mozilla: Matrix SDK bundled with Thunderbird vulnerable to a device verification attack

2135396 - CVE-2022-39251 Mozilla: Matrix SDK bundled with Thunderbird vulnerable to an impersonation attack

2136156 - CVE-2022-42927 Mozilla: Same-origin policy violation could have leaked cross-origin URLs

2136157 - CVE-2022-42928 Mozilla: Memory Corruption in JS Engine

2136158 - CVE-2022-42929 Mozilla: Denial of Service via window.print

2136159 - CVE-2022-42932 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 102.4 and Thunderbird 102.4

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