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 102.11.0.

Security Fix(es):

• Mozilla: Browser prompts could have been obscured by popups (CVE-2023-32205)
• Mozilla: Crash in RLBox Expat driver (CVE-2023-32206)
• Mozilla: Potential permissions request bypass via clickjacking (CVE-2023-32207)
• Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 113 and Firefox ESR 102.11 (CVE-2023-32215)
• Mozilla: Content process crash due to invalid wasm code (CVE-2023-32211)
• Mozilla: Potential spoof due to obscured address bar (CVE-2023-32212)
• Mozilla: Potential memory corruption in FileReader::DoReadData() (CVE-2023-32213)

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 - 2196736 - CVE-2023-32205 Mozilla: Browser prompts could have been obscured by popups
• BZ - 2196737 - CVE-2023-32206 Mozilla: Crash in RLBox Expat driver
• BZ - 2196738 - CVE-2023-32207 Mozilla: Potential permissions request bypass via clickjacking
• BZ - 2196740 - CVE-2023-32211 Mozilla: Content process crash due to invalid wasm code
• BZ - 2196741 - CVE-2023-32212 Mozilla: Potential spoof due to obscured address bar
• BZ - 2196742 - CVE-2023-32213 Mozilla: Potential memory corruption in FileReader::DoReadData()
• BZ - 2196753 - CVE-2023-32215 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 113 and Firefox ESR 102.11

CVEs

• CVE-2023-32205
• CVE-2023-32206
• CVE-2023-32207
• CVE-2023-32211
• CVE-2023-32212
• CVE-2023-32213
• CVE-2023-32215

References

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