Important: thunderbird security update

Synopsis

Important: thunderbird security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

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 68.11.0.

Security Fix(es):

• chromium-browser: Use after free in ANGLE (CVE-2020-6463)
  
• chromium-browser: Inappropriate implementation in WebRTC (CVE-2020-6514)
  
• Mozilla: Potential leak of redirect targets when loading scripts in a worker (CVE-2020-15652)
  
• Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 79 and Firefox ESR 68.11 (CVE-2020-15659)
  

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

Fixes

• BZ - 1840893 - CVE-2020-6463 chromium-browser: Use after free in ANGLE
• BZ - 1857349 - CVE-2020-6514 chromium-browser: Inappropriate implementation in WebRTC
• BZ - 1861570 - CVE-2020-15652 Mozilla: Potential leak of redirect targets when loading scripts in a worker
• BZ - 1861572 - CVE-2020-15659 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 79 and Firefox ESR 68.11

CVEs

• CVE-2020-6463
• CVE-2020-6514
• CVE-2020-15652
• CVE-2020-15659

References

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