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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RHSA-2023:4497 Important Thunderbird Update

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Red Hat has issued a significant security patch for Thunderbird on RHEL 8 tackling several vulnerabilities. Find out more!
An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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 102.14.0.
Security Fix(es):
* Mozilla: Offscreen Canvas could have bypassed cross-origin restrictions (CVE-2023-4045)
* Mozilla: Incorrect value used during WASM compilation (CVE-2023-4046)
* Mozilla: Potential permissions request bypass via clickjacking (CVE-2023-4047)
* Mozilla: Crash in DOMParser due to out-of-memory conditions (CVE-2023-4048)
* Mozilla: Fix potential race conditions when releasing platform objects (CVE-2023-4049)
* Mozilla: Stack buffer overflow in StorageManager (CVE-2023-4050)
* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 116, Firefox ESR 115.1, Firefox ESR 102.14, Thunderbird 115.1, and Thunderbird 102.14 (CVE-2023-4056)
* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 115.1, and Thunderbird 115.1 (CVE-2023-4057)
* thunderbird: File Extension Spoofing using the Text Direction Override Character (CVE-2023-3417)
* Mozilla: Cookie jar overflow caused unexpected cookie jar state (CVE-2023-4055)
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 security update Red Hat buffer overflow Thunderbird Important cross origin

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3417 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4045 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4046 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4047 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4048 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4049 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4050 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4055 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4056 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4057 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: thunderbird-102.14.0-1.el8_8.src.rpm
aarch64: thunderbird-102.14.0-1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-102.14.0-1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-102.14.0-1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: thunderbird-102.14.0-1.el8_8.ppc64le.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-102.14.0-1.el8_8.ppc64le.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-102.14.0-1.el8_8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: thunderbird-102.14.0-1.el8_8.s390x.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-102.14.0-1.el8_8.s390x.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-102.14.0-1.el8_8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-102.14.0-1.el8_8.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-102.14.0-1.el8_8.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-102.14.0-1.el8_8.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-2023:4497-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:4497
Issue date: 2023-08-07

Topic

An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.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 security update Red Hat buffer overflow Thunderbird Important cross origin

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2225325 - CVE-2023-3417 thunderbird: File Extension Spoofing using the Text Direction Override Character

2228360 - CVE-2023-4045 Mozilla: Offscreen Canvas could have bypassed cross-origin restrictions

2228361 - CVE-2023-4046 Mozilla: Incorrect value used during WASM compilation

2228362 - CVE-2023-4047 Mozilla: Potential permissions request bypass via clickjacking

2228363 - CVE-2023-4048 Mozilla: Crash in DOMParser due to out-of-memory conditions

2228364 - CVE-2023-4049 Mozilla: Fix potential race conditions when releasing platform objects

2228365 - CVE-2023-4050 Mozilla: Stack buffer overflow in StorageManager

2228367 - CVE-2023-4055 Mozilla: Cookie jar overflow caused unexpected cookie jar state

2228370 - CVE-2023-4056 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 116, Firefox ESR 115.1, Firefox ESR 102.14, Thunderbird 115.1, and Thunderbird 102.14

2228371 - CVE-2023-4057 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 115.1, and Thunderbird 115.1

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