Synopsis

Critical: thunderbird security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Critical

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 critical
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.

Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed HTML content.
Malicious HTML content could cause Thunderbird to crash or, potentially,
execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Thunderbird.
(CVE-2010-1585, CVE-2011-0053, CVE-2011-0062)

A flaw was found in the way Thunderbird handled malformed JPEG images. An
HTML mail message containing a malicious JPEG image could cause
Thunderbird to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the
privileges of the user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2011-0061)

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 - 675082 - CVE-2011-0053 Mozilla miscellaneous memory safety hazards (MFSA 2011-01)
• BZ - 675083 - CVE-2011-0062 Mozilla miscellaneous memory safety hazards (MFSA 2011-01)
• BZ - 675094 - CVE-2010-1585 Mozilla ParanoidFragmentSink allows javascript: URLs in chrome documents (MFSA 2011-08)
• BZ - 675095 - CVE-2011-0061 Mozilla crash caused by corrupted JPEG image (MFSA 2011-09)

CVEs

• CVE-2011-0062
• CVE-2010-1585
• CVE-2011-0061
• CVE-2011-0053

References

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6

SRPM
thunderbird-3.1.8-4.el6_0.src.rpm	SHA-256: f15d986f47a0f406403d4ff364f5e9495097772099e1522d4023d397b410b22a
x86_64
thunderbird-3.1.8-4.el6_0.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: faf5e96c10193d8c88ee0ad678d95b62b59361b6921e66ecec4dc65d8ce8e7fd
thunderbird-debuginfo-3.1.8-4.el6_0.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 7294ea311d0bcaaf688db7e19048dba08578e9b19d288270b19a5dfa6f213ef9
i386
thunderbird-3.1.8-4.el6_0.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 14e80b3f703b37ac4cdc79f4ec037f53009c6d06242bce5f5a27fd44a2517bcb
thunderbird-debuginfo-3.1.8-4.el6_0.i686.rpm	SHA-256: d00c96552964fab013fb8f9b5a0a7901355a66d1ba8a7e072ca8af781ef86259

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6

SRPM
thunderbird-3.1.8-4.el6_0.src.rpm	SHA-256: f15d986f47a0f406403d4ff364f5e9495097772099e1522d4023d397b410b22a
x86_64
thunderbird-3.1.8-4.el6_0.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: faf5e96c10193d8c88ee0ad678d95b62b59361b6921e66ecec4dc65d8ce8e7fd
thunderbird-debuginfo-3.1.8-4.el6_0.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 7294ea311d0bcaaf688db7e19048dba08578e9b19d288270b19a5dfa6f213ef9
i386
thunderbird-3.1.8-4.el6_0.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 14e80b3f703b37ac4cdc79f4ec037f53009c6d06242bce5f5a27fd44a2517bcb
thunderbird-debuginfo-3.1.8-4.el6_0.i686.rpm	SHA-256: d00c96552964fab013fb8f9b5a0a7901355a66d1ba8a7e072ca8af781ef86259

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6

SRPM
thunderbird-3.1.8-4.el6_0.src.rpm	SHA-256: f15d986f47a0f406403d4ff364f5e9495097772099e1522d4023d397b410b22a
x86_64
thunderbird-3.1.8-4.el6_0.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: faf5e96c10193d8c88ee0ad678d95b62b59361b6921e66ecec4dc65d8ce8e7fd
thunderbird-debuginfo-3.1.8-4.el6_0.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 7294ea311d0bcaaf688db7e19048dba08578e9b19d288270b19a5dfa6f213ef9
i386
thunderbird-3.1.8-4.el6_0.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 14e80b3f703b37ac4cdc79f4ec037f53009c6d06242bce5f5a27fd44a2517bcb
thunderbird-debuginfo-3.1.8-4.el6_0.i686.rpm	SHA-256: d00c96552964fab013fb8f9b5a0a7901355a66d1ba8a7e072ca8af781ef86259

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6

SRPM
thunderbird-3.1.8-4.el6_0.src.rpm	SHA-256: f15d986f47a0f406403d4ff364f5e9495097772099e1522d4023d397b410b22a
s390x
thunderbird-3.1.8-4.el6_0.s390x.rpm	SHA-256: a7521a4a87fbdf5fbe429d6289b7a0f511bd8610d2009e392cf6c5dd22fc6a8c
thunderbird-debuginfo-3.1.8-4.el6_0.s390x.rpm	SHA-256: 6214b804c36f637864a88c3a16e52186f67271d005765afce4273aa2719a954e

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6

SRPM
thunderbird-3.1.8-4.el6_0.src.rpm	SHA-256: f15d986f47a0f406403d4ff364f5e9495097772099e1522d4023d397b410b22a
ppc64
thunderbird-3.1.8-4.el6_0.ppc64.rpm	SHA-256: c762e6616ff53989ccb238e08a63cdebf87d02091ab9026ea5fb915c72dec444
thunderbird-debuginfo-3.1.8-4.el6_0.ppc64.rpm	SHA-256: 8066a454abe1c902210bdf762b1c791baa1dbf9d17e7dc45495c7bb2356b4bb0

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6

SRPM
thunderbird-3.1.8-4.el6_0.src.rpm	SHA-256: f15d986f47a0f406403d4ff364f5e9495097772099e1522d4023d397b410b22a
x86_64
thunderbird-3.1.8-4.el6_0.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: faf5e96c10193d8c88ee0ad678d95b62b59361b6921e66ecec4dc65d8ce8e7fd
thunderbird-debuginfo-3.1.8-4.el6_0.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 7294ea311d0bcaaf688db7e19048dba08578e9b19d288270b19a5dfa6f213ef9
i386
thunderbird-3.1.8-4.el6_0.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 14e80b3f703b37ac4cdc79f4ec037f53009c6d06242bce5f5a27fd44a2517bcb
thunderbird-debuginfo-3.1.8-4.el6_0.i686.rpm	SHA-256: d00c96552964fab013fb8f9b5a0a7901355a66d1ba8a7e072ca8af781ef86259