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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9: RHSA-2023:5223-01 Important Heap Overflow Fix

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Calendar Grey September 19, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Important Thunderbird security patch made available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Update your systems promptly for enhanced protection.
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 102.15.1.
Security Fix(es):
* libwebp: Heap buffer overflow in WebP Codec (CVE-2023-4863)
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 heap overflow Red Hat Enterprise security impact thunderbird important update AppStream EUS

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4863 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.0):
Source: thunderbird-102.15.1-1.el9_0.src.rpm
aarch64: thunderbird-102.15.1-1.el9_0.aarch64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-102.15.1-1.el9_0.aarch64.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-102.15.1-1.el9_0.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: thunderbird-102.15.1-1.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-102.15.1-1.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-102.15.1-1.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: thunderbird-102.15.1-1.el9_0.s390x.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-102.15.1-1.el9_0.s390x.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-102.15.1-1.el9_0.s390x.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-102.15.1-1.el9_0.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-102.15.1-1.el9_0.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debugsource-102.15.1-1.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-2023:5223-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5223
Issue date: 2023-09-19

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 heap overflow Red Hat Enterprise security impact thunderbird important update AppStream EUS

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

2238431 - CVE-2023-4863 libwebp: Heap buffer overflow in WebP Codec

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