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Red Hat: RHSA-2023-1805-01 Important: Thunderbird Security Update

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Calendar Grey April 17, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Crucial security patch released for Thunderbird users on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Review the specifics of the vulnerabilities addressed and the solutions provided.
An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Telecommunications Update Service, and Red Hat Ent...

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 102.10.0.
Security Fix(es):
* Thunderbird: Revocation status of S/Mime recipient certificates was not checked (CVE-2023-0547)
* Mozilla: Matrix SDK bundled with Thunderbird vulnerable to denial-of-service attack (CVE-2023-28427)
* Mozilla: Fullscreen notification obscured (CVE-2023-29533)
* Mozilla: Potential Memory Corruption following Garbage Collector compaction (CVE-2023-29535)
* Mozilla: Invalid free from JavaScript code (CVE-2023-29536)
* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 112 and Firefox ESR 102.10 (CVE-2023-29550)
* Mozilla: Memory Corruption in Safe Browsing Code (CVE-2023-1945)
* Thunderbird: Hang when processing certain OpenPGP messages (CVE-2023-29479)
* Mozilla: Content-Disposition filename truncation leads to Reflected File Download (CVE-2023-29539)
* Mozilla: Files with malicious extensions could have been downloaded unsafely on Linux (CVE-2023-29541)
* Mozilla: Incorrect optimization result on ARM64 (CVE-2023-29548)
* MFSA-TMP-2023-0001 Mozilla: Double-free in libwebp (BZ#2186102)
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-2023-0547 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-1945 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-28427 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-29479 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-29533 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-29535 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-29536 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-29539 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-29541 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-29548 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-29550 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream AUS (v. 8.2):
Source: thunderbird-102.10.0-2.el8_2.src.rpm
aarch64: thunderbird-102.10.0-2.el8_2.aarch64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-102.10.0-2.el8_2.aarch64.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-102.10.0-2.el8_2.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: thunderbird-102.10.0-2.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-102.10.0-2.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-102.10.0-2.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-102.10.0-2.el8_2.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-102.10.0-2.el8_2.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-102.10.0-2.el8_2.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.2):
Source: thunderbird-102.10.0-2.el8_2.src.rpm
aarch64: thunderbird-102.10.0-2.el8_2.aarch64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-102.10.0-2.el8_2.aarch64.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-102.10.0-2.el8_2.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: thunderbird-102.10.0-2.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-102.10.0-2.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-102.10.0-2.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-102.10.0-2.el8_2.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-102.10.0-2.el8_2.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-102.10.0-2.el8_2.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream TUS (v. 8.2):
Source: thunderbird-102.10.0-2.el8_2.src.rpm
aarch64: thunderbird-102.10.0-2.el8_2.aarch64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:1805-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:1805
Issue date: 2023-04-17

Topic

An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 TelecommunicationsUpdate Service, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Update Services for SAPSolutions.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 update memory corruption denial-of-service Thunderbird Important

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream AUS (v. 8.2) - aarch64, ppc64le, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.2) - aarch64, ppc64le, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream TUS (v. 8.2) - aarch64, ppc64le, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2183278 - CVE-2023-28427 Mozilla: Matrix SDK bundled with Thunderbird vulnerable to denial-of-service attack

2186101 - CVE-2023-29533 Mozilla: Fullscreen notification obscured

2186102 - MFSA-TMP-2023-0001 Mozilla: Double-free in libwebp

2186103 - CVE-2023-29535 Mozilla: Potential Memory Corruption following Garbage Collector compaction

2186104 - CVE-2023-29536 Mozilla: Invalid free from JavaScript code

2186105 - CVE-2023-29539 Mozilla: Content-Disposition filename truncation leads to Reflected File Download

2186106 - CVE-2023-29541 Mozilla: Files with malicious extensions could have been downloaded unsafely on Linux

2186109 - CVE-2023-1945 Mozilla: Memory Corruption in Safe Browsing Code

2186110 - CVE-2023-29548 Mozilla: Incorrect optimization result on ARM64

2186111 - CVE-2023-29550 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 112 and Firefox ESR 102.10

2186734 - CVE-2023-0547 Thunderbird: Revocation status of S/Mime recipient certificates was not checked

2186735 - CVE-2023-29479 Thunderbird: Hang when processing certain OpenPGP messages

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