Issued:
2010-11-17
Updated:
2010-11-17

RHSA-2010:0896 - Security Advisory

Synopsis

Moderate: thunderbird security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An updated thunderbird package that fixes several security issues is now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate
security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores,
which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability
from the CVE links in the References section.

Description

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.

A race condition flaw was found in the way Thunderbird handled Document
Object Model (DOM) element properties. An HTML mail message containing
malicious content could cause Thunderbird to crash or, potentially, execute
arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Thunderbird.
(CVE-2010-3765)

Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed HTML mail content.
An HTML mail message containing malicious content could cause Thunderbird
to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the
user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2010-3175, CVE-2010-3176, CVE-2010-3179,
CVE-2010-3180, CVE-2010-3183)

A same-origin policy bypass flaw was found in Thunderbird. Remote HTML
content could steal private data from different remote HTML content
Thunderbird had loaded. (CVE-2010-3178)

Note: JavaScript support is disabled by default in Thunderbird. The above
issues are not exploitable unless JavaScript is enabled.

A flaw was found in the script that launches Thunderbird. The
LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable was appending a "." character, which could allow a
local attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of a different
user running Thunderbird, if that user ran Thunderbird from within an
attacker-controlled directory. (CVE-2010-3182)

All Thunderbird users should upgrade to this updated package, which
resolves these issues. All running instances of Thunderbird must be
restarted for the update to take effect.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to
use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386

Fixes

  • BZ - 642272 - CVE-2010-3176 Mozilla miscellaneous memory safety hazards
  • BZ - 642275 - CVE-2010-3175 Mozilla miscellaneous memory safety hazards
  • BZ - 642277 - CVE-2010-3179 Mozilla buffer overflow and memory corruption using document.write
  • BZ - 642283 - CVE-2010-3180 Mozilla use-after-free error in nsBarProp
  • BZ - 642286 - CVE-2010-3183 Mozilla dangling pointer vulnerability in LookupGetterOrSetter
  • BZ - 642294 - CVE-2010-3178 Mozilla cross-site information disclosure via modal calls
  • BZ - 642300 - CVE-2010-3182 Mozilla unsafe library loading flaw
  • BZ - 646997 - CVE-2010-3765 Firefox race condition flaw (MFSA 2010-73)

CVEs

References

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6

SRPM
thunderbird-3.1.6-1.el6_0.src.rpm SHA-256: 8e2b84afdfd925a85983522ada96c2e0ec102b20a207cbba189a0c3e216482f5
x86_64
thunderbird-3.1.6-1.el6_0.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: e8d3402ec80a02555d9ad9668470ecb4f92c1bea2f67226859b107d45e0bf8fe
thunderbird-debuginfo-3.1.6-1.el6_0.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: d91d7a7701b0be86e9df748a75e5c69f04bbebd16d399736f6e3d92151ffe86d
i386
thunderbird-3.1.6-1.el6_0.i686.rpm SHA-256: 0f321d7c1125fdce5cb2fb0acb3d61276457b8e07d50b860d3142d6d9e3d223f
thunderbird-debuginfo-3.1.6-1.el6_0.i686.rpm SHA-256: 85cd1dcec9e2589a075898077875bbcd2daa9b2ac6f8832e259b7ee9a23bf5da

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6

SRPM
thunderbird-3.1.6-1.el6_0.src.rpm SHA-256: 8e2b84afdfd925a85983522ada96c2e0ec102b20a207cbba189a0c3e216482f5
x86_64
thunderbird-3.1.6-1.el6_0.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: e8d3402ec80a02555d9ad9668470ecb4f92c1bea2f67226859b107d45e0bf8fe
thunderbird-debuginfo-3.1.6-1.el6_0.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: d91d7a7701b0be86e9df748a75e5c69f04bbebd16d399736f6e3d92151ffe86d
i386
thunderbird-3.1.6-1.el6_0.i686.rpm SHA-256: 0f321d7c1125fdce5cb2fb0acb3d61276457b8e07d50b860d3142d6d9e3d223f
thunderbird-debuginfo-3.1.6-1.el6_0.i686.rpm SHA-256: 85cd1dcec9e2589a075898077875bbcd2daa9b2ac6f8832e259b7ee9a23bf5da

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6

SRPM
thunderbird-3.1.6-1.el6_0.src.rpm SHA-256: 8e2b84afdfd925a85983522ada96c2e0ec102b20a207cbba189a0c3e216482f5
x86_64
thunderbird-3.1.6-1.el6_0.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: e8d3402ec80a02555d9ad9668470ecb4f92c1bea2f67226859b107d45e0bf8fe
thunderbird-debuginfo-3.1.6-1.el6_0.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: d91d7a7701b0be86e9df748a75e5c69f04bbebd16d399736f6e3d92151ffe86d
i386
thunderbird-3.1.6-1.el6_0.i686.rpm SHA-256: 0f321d7c1125fdce5cb2fb0acb3d61276457b8e07d50b860d3142d6d9e3d223f
thunderbird-debuginfo-3.1.6-1.el6_0.i686.rpm SHA-256: 85cd1dcec9e2589a075898077875bbcd2daa9b2ac6f8832e259b7ee9a23bf5da

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6

SRPM
thunderbird-3.1.6-1.el6_0.src.rpm SHA-256: 8e2b84afdfd925a85983522ada96c2e0ec102b20a207cbba189a0c3e216482f5
s390x
thunderbird-3.1.6-1.el6_0.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 1bc2f6cb8332d76c726b6a0f728f39819d9eaba3908907695b78607c01e249a5
thunderbird-debuginfo-3.1.6-1.el6_0.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 530e2ce57fc0a902f874aca0005d170f9672939a9ef4aba895cec436331f87b7

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6

SRPM
thunderbird-3.1.6-1.el6_0.src.rpm SHA-256: 8e2b84afdfd925a85983522ada96c2e0ec102b20a207cbba189a0c3e216482f5
ppc64
thunderbird-3.1.6-1.el6_0.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: c1647397fc3af8164cd68070ae1371033a6783921741e923ce372f54e4796907
thunderbird-debuginfo-3.1.6-1.el6_0.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: a84e64117ef19a5c78a2d8d25eba0b6b41b42a64b2ad510684f5e7c2a075b017

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6

SRPM
thunderbird-3.1.6-1.el6_0.src.rpm SHA-256: 8e2b84afdfd925a85983522ada96c2e0ec102b20a207cbba189a0c3e216482f5
x86_64
thunderbird-3.1.6-1.el6_0.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: e8d3402ec80a02555d9ad9668470ecb4f92c1bea2f67226859b107d45e0bf8fe
thunderbird-debuginfo-3.1.6-1.el6_0.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: d91d7a7701b0be86e9df748a75e5c69f04bbebd16d399736f6e3d92151ffe86d
i386
thunderbird-3.1.6-1.el6_0.i686.rpm SHA-256: 0f321d7c1125fdce5cb2fb0acb3d61276457b8e07d50b860d3142d6d9e3d223f
thunderbird-debuginfo-3.1.6-1.el6_0.i686.rpm SHA-256: 85cd1dcec9e2589a075898077875bbcd2daa9b2ac6f8832e259b7ee9a23bf5da

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