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Red Hat: RHSA-2023:5475-01 Important: Thunderbird Security Issues

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Calendar Grey October 5, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
The recent Thunderbird release for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 tackles critical security vulnerabilities by providing remedies for various CVEs.
An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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 115.3.1.
Security Fix(es):
* firefox: use-after-free in workers (CVE-2023-3600)
* Mozilla: Out-of-bounds write in PathOps (CVE-2023-5169)
* Mozilla: Use-after-free in Ion Compiler (CVE-2023-5171)
* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 118, Firefox ESR 115.3, and Thunderbird 115.3 (CVE-2023-5176)
* libvpx: Heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx (CVE-2023-5217)
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-2023-3600 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5169 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5171 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5176 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5217 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: thunderbird-115.3.1-1.el7_9.src.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-115.3.1-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-115.3.1-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7):
Source: thunderbird-115.3.1-1.el7_9.src.rpm
ppc64le: thunderbird-115.3.1-1.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-115.3.1-1.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-115.3.1-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-115.3.1-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7):
Source: thunderbird-115.3.1-1.el7_9.src.rpm
x86_64: thunderbird-115.3.1-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm thunderbird-debuginfo-115.3.1-1.el7_9.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-2023:5475-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5475
Issue date: 2023-10-05

Topic

An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.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 Enterprise Linux security impact security issues thunderbird

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - ppc64le, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2222652 - CVE-2023-3600 firefox: use-after-free in workers

2240893 - CVE-2023-5169 Mozilla: Out-of-bounds write in PathOps

2240894 - CVE-2023-5171 Mozilla: Use-after-free in Ion Compiler

2240896 - CVE-2023-5176 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 118, Firefox ESR 115.3, and Thunderbird 115.3

2241191 - CVE-2023-5217 libvpx: Heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx

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