Synopsis
Important: thunderbird security update
Type/Severity
Security Advisory: Important
Topic
An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 6, and 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 45.8.0.
Security Fix(es):
- Multiple flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web
page containing malicious content could cause Thunderbird to crash or,
potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running
Thunderbird. (CVE-2017-5398, CVE-2017-5400, CVE-2017-5401, CVE-2017-5402,
CVE-2017-5404, CVE-2017-5407, CVE-2017-5408, CVE-2017-5410, CVE-2017-5405)
Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues.
Upstream acknowledges Nils, Jerri Rice, Rh0, Anton Eliasson, David Kohlbrenner,
Ivan Fratric of Google Project Zero, Anonymous, Eric Lawrence of Chrome
Security, Boris Zbarsky, Christian Holler, Honza Bambas, Jon Coppeard, Randell
Jesup, Andre Bargull, Kan-Ru Chen, and Nathan Froyd as the original reporters.
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
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 7.6 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 7.5 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 7.4 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 7.3 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.6 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.4 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.3 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.6 ppc64le
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.5 ppc64le
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.4 ppc64le
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.3 ppc64le
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.6 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.3 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 ppc64le
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.4 ppc64le
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.3 ppc64le
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.4 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.3 x86_64
Fixes
- BZ - 1429778 - CVE-2017-5400 Mozilla: asm.js JIT-spray bypass of ASLR and DEP (MFSA 2017-06)
- BZ - 1429779 - CVE-2017-5401 Mozilla: Memory Corruption when handling ErrorResult (MFSA 2017-06)
- BZ - 1429780 - CVE-2017-5402 Mozilla: Use-after-free working with events in FontFace objects (MFSA 2017-06)
- BZ - 1429781 - CVE-2017-5404 Mozilla: Use-after-free working with ranges in selections (MFSA 2017-06)
- BZ - 1429782 - CVE-2017-5407 Mozilla: Pixel and history stealing via floating-point timing side channel with SVG filters (MFSA 2017-06)
- BZ - 1429783 - CVE-2017-5410 Mozilla: Memory corruption during JavaScript garbage collection incremental sweeping (MFSA 2017-06)
- BZ - 1429784 - CVE-2017-5408 Mozilla: Cross-origin reading of video captions in violation of CORS (MFSA 2017-06)
- BZ - 1429785 - CVE-2017-5405 Mozilla: FTP response codes can cause use of uninitialized values for ports (MFSA 2017-06)
- BZ - 1429786 - CVE-2017-5398 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 52 and Firefox ESR 45.8 (MFSA 2017-06)
CVEs
References
Vulmon