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Red Hat 8.4 RHSA-2023-4500-01 Critical: Thunderbird Security Flaw

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Calendar Grey August 7, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Crucial patch released for Thunderbird on RHEL 8.4 to mitigate severe security flaws.
An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Telecommunications Update Service...

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 issue Red Hat software update malware threat important Thunderbird

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 AUS (v.8.4):
Source: thunderbird-102.14.0-1.el8_4.src.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-102.14.0-1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-102.14.0-1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-102.14.0-1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.8.4):
Source: thunderbird-102.14.0-1.el8_4.src.rpm
aarch64: thunderbird-102.14.0-1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-102.14.0-1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-102.14.0-1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: thunderbird-102.14.0-1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-102.14.0-1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-102.14.0-1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: thunderbird-102.14.0-1.el8_4.s390x.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-102.14.0-1.el8_4.s390x.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-102.14.0-1.el8_4.s390x.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-102.14.0-1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-102.14.0-1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-102.14.0-1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream TUS (v.8.4):
Source: thunderbird-102.14.0-1.el8_4.src.rpm
aarch64: thunderbird-102.14.0-1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-102.14.0-1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-102.14.0-1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: thunderbird-102.14.0-1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-102.14.0-1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:4500-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:4500
Issue date: 2023-08-07

Topic

An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4Advanced Mission Critical Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4Telecommunications Update Service, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 UpdateServices 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 security issue Red Hat software update malware threat important Thunderbird

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream AUS (v.8.4) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.8.4) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream TUS (v.8.4) - 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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