Important: thunderbird security update

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 impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.

This update upgrades Thunderbird to version 91.12.0.

Security Fix(es):

• Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 103 and 102.1 (CVE-2022-2505)
• Mozilla: Directory indexes for bundled resources reflected URL parameters (CVE-2022-36318)
• Mozilla: Mouse Position spoofing with CSS transforms (CVE-2022-36319)

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.

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.

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 2111907 - CVE-2022-36319 Mozilla: Mouse Position spoofing with CSS transforms
• BZ - 2111908 - CVE-2022-36318 Mozilla: Directory indexes for bundled resources reflected URL parameters
• BZ - 2111910 - CVE-2022-2505 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 103 and 102.1

CVEs

• CVE-2022-2505
• CVE-2022-36318
• CVE-2022-36319

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important