Important: thunderbird security update

Topic

An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support.

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 102.4.0.

Security Fix(es):

• Mozilla: Matrix SDK bundled with Thunderbird vulnerable to an impersonation attack by malicious server administrators (CVE-2022-39249)
• Mozilla: Matrix SDK bundled with Thunderbird vulnerable to a device verification attack (CVE-2022-39250)
• Mozilla: Matrix SDK bundled with Thunderbird vulnerable to an impersonation attack (CVE-2022-39251)
• Mozilla: Same-origin policy violation could have leaked cross-origin URLs (CVE-2022-42927)
• Mozilla: Memory Corruption in JS Engine (CVE-2022-42928)
• Mozilla: Matrix SDK bundled with Thunderbird vulnerable to a data corruption issue (CVE-2022-39236)
• Mozilla: Denial of Service via window.print (CVE-2022-42929)
• Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 102.4 and Thunderbird 102.4 (CVE-2022-42932)

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 for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.2 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.2 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2135391 - CVE-2022-39236 Mozilla: Matrix SDK bundled with Thunderbird vulnerable to a data corruption issue
• BZ - 2135393 - CVE-2022-39249 Mozilla: Matrix SDK bundled with Thunderbird vulnerable to an impersonation attack by malicious server administrators
• BZ - 2135395 - CVE-2022-39250 Mozilla: Matrix SDK bundled with Thunderbird vulnerable to a device verification attack
• BZ - 2135396 - CVE-2022-39251 Mozilla: Matrix SDK bundled with Thunderbird vulnerable to an impersonation attack
• BZ - 2136156 - CVE-2022-42927 Mozilla: Same-origin policy violation could have leaked cross-origin URLs
• BZ - 2136157 - CVE-2022-42928 Mozilla: Memory Corruption in JS Engine
• BZ - 2136158 - CVE-2022-42929 Mozilla: Denial of Service via window.print
• BZ - 2136159 - CVE-2022-42932 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 102.4 and Thunderbird 102.4

CVEs

• CVE-2022-39236
• CVE-2022-39249
• CVE-2022-39250
• CVE-2022-39251
• CVE-2022-42927
• CVE-2022-42928
• CVE-2022-42929
• CVE-2022-42932

References

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