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Red Hat 9.0 RHSA-2023-4947-01 Important: Thunderbird Memory Issues

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Calendar Grey September 4, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Mozilla Thunderbird security patch released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 addressing critical vulnerabilities related to memory management.
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 102.15.0.
Security Fix(es):
* Mozilla: Memory corruption in IPC CanvasTranslator (CVE-2023-4573)
* Mozilla: Memory corruption in IPC ColorPickerShownCallback (CVE-2023-4574)
* Mozilla: Memory corruption in IPC FilePickerShownCallback (CVE-2023-4575)
* Mozilla: Memory corruption in JIT UpdateRegExpStatics (CVE-2023-4577)
* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 117, Firefox ESR 102.15, Firefox ESR 115.2, Thunderbird 102.15, and Thunderbird 115.2 (CVE-2023-4584)
* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 117, Firefox ESR 115.2, and Thunderbird 115.2 (CVE-2023-4585)
* Mozilla: Full screen notification obscured by file open dialog (CVE-2023-4051)
* Mozilla: Full screen notification obscured by external program (CVE-2023-4053)
* Mozilla: Error reporting methods in SpiderMonkey could have triggered an Out of Memory Exception (CVE-2023-4578)
* Mozilla: Push notifications saved to disk unencrypted (CVE-2023-4580)
* Mozilla: XLL file extensions were downloadable without warnings (CVE-2023-4581)
* Mozilla: Browsing Context potentially not cleared when closing Private Window (CVE-2023-4583)
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 memory corruption Red Hat Enterprise Linux application security thunderbird important update

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4051 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4053 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4573 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4574 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4575 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4577 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4578 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4580 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4581 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4583 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4584 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4585 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.0):
Source: thunderbird-102.15.0-1.el9_0.src.rpm
aarch64: thunderbird-102.15.0-1.el9_0.aarch64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-102.15.0-1.el9_0.aarch64.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-102.15.0-1.el9_0.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: thunderbird-102.15.0-1.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-102.15.0-1.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-102.15.0-1.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: thunderbird-102.15.0-1.el9_0.s390x.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-102.15.0-1.el9_0.s390x.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-102.15.0-1.el9_0.s390x.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-102.15.0-1.el9_0.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-102.15.0-1.el9_0.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-102.15.0-1.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


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:4947-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:4947
Issue date: 2023-09-04

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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory memory corruption Red Hat Enterprise Linux application security thunderbird important update

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

2236071 - CVE-2023-4573 Mozilla: Memory corruption in IPC CanvasTranslator

2236072 - CVE-2023-4574 Mozilla: Memory corruption in IPC ColorPickerShownCallback

2236073 - CVE-2023-4575 Mozilla: Memory corruption in IPC FilePickerShownCallback

2236075 - CVE-2023-4577 Mozilla: Memory corruption in JIT UpdateRegExpStatics

2236076 - CVE-2023-4051 Mozilla: Full screen notification obscured by file open dialog

2236077 - CVE-2023-4578 Mozilla: Error reporting methods in SpiderMonkey could have triggered an Out of Memory Exception

2236078 - CVE-2023-4053 Mozilla: Full screen notification obscured by external program

2236079 - CVE-2023-4580 Mozilla: Push notifications saved to disk unencrypted

2236080 - CVE-2023-4581 Mozilla: XLL file extensions were downloadable without warnings

2236082 - CVE-2023-4583 Mozilla: Browsing Context potentially not cleared when closing Private Window

2236084 - CVE-2023-4584 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 117, Firefox ESR 102.15, Firefox ESR 115.2, Thunderbird 102.15, and Thunderbird 115.2

2236086 - CVE-2023-4585 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 117, Firefox ESR 115.2, and Thunderbird 115.2

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