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Red Hat: RHSA-2022-9081-01 Important: Thunderbird Security Fix

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Calendar Grey December 15, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Uncover the vital security patch for Thunderbird on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 featuring crucial resolutions for exposure risks.
An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 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 102.6.0.
Security Fix(es):
* Mozilla: Arbitrary file read from a compromised content process (CVE-2022-46872)
* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 102.6 and Thunderbird 102.6 (CVE-2022-46878)
* Mozilla: Use-after-free in WebGL (CVE-2022-46880)
* Mozilla: Memory corruption in WebGL (CVE-2022-46881)
* Mozilla: Quoting from an HTML email with certain tags will trigger network requests and load remote content, regardless of a configuration to block remote content (CVE-2022-45414)
* Mozilla: Drag and Dropped Filenames could have been truncated to malicious extensions (CVE-2022-46874)
* Mozilla: Use-after-free in WebGL (CVE-2022-46882)
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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security update Red Hat browser security important fix mail client Thunderbird

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-45414 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-46872 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-46874 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-46878 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-46880 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-46881 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-46882 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.0):
Source: thunderbird-102.6.0-2.el9_0.src.rpm
aarch64: thunderbird-102.6.0-2.el9_0.aarch64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-102.6.0-2.el9_0.aarch64.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-102.6.0-2.el9_0.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: thunderbird-102.6.0-2.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-102.6.0-2.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-102.6.0-2.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: thunderbird-102.6.0-2.el9_0.s390x.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-102.6.0-2.el9_0.s390x.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-102.6.0-2.el9_0.s390x.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-102.6.0-2.el9_0.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-102.6.0-2.el9_0.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-102.6.0-2.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


Severity
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:9081-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:9081
Issue date: 2022-12-15

Topic

An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0Extended 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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security update Red Hat browser security important fix mail client Thunderbird

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.0) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2149868 - CVE-2022-45414 Mozilla: Quoting from an HTML email with certain tags will trigger network requests and load remote content, regardless of a configuration to block remote content

2153441 - CVE-2022-46872 Mozilla: Arbitrary file read from a compromised content process

2153449 - CVE-2022-46874 Mozilla: Drag and Dropped Filenames could have been truncated to malicious extensions

2153454 - CVE-2022-46878 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 102.6 and Thunderbird 102.6

2153463 - CVE-2022-46880 Mozilla: Use-after-free in WebGL

2153466 - CVE-2022-46881 Mozilla: Memory corruption in WebGL

2153467 - CVE-2022-46882 Mozilla: Use-after-free in WebGL

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