Issued:
2014-03-19
Updated:
2014-03-19

RHSA-2014:0316 - Security Advisory

Synopsis

Important: thunderbird security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An updated thunderbird package that fixes several security issues is now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having
Important 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 web content. A web
page containing malicious content could cause Thunderbird to crash or,
potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running
Thunderbird. (CVE-2014-1493, CVE-2014-1510, CVE-2014-1511, CVE-2014-1512,
CVE-2014-1513, CVE-2014-1514)

Several information disclosure flaws were found in the way Thunderbird
processed malformed web content. An attacker could use these flaws to gain
access to sensitive information such as cross-domain content or protected
memory addresses or, potentially, cause Thunderbird to crash.
(CVE-2014-1497, CVE-2014-1508, CVE-2014-1505)

A memory corruption flaw was found in the way Thunderbird rendered certain
PDF files. An attacker able to trick a user into installing a malicious
extension could use this flaw to crash Thunderbird or, potentially, execute
arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Thunderbird.
(CVE-2014-1509)

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues.
Upstream acknowledges Benoit Jacob, Olli Pettay, Jan Varga, Jan de Mooij,
Jesse Ruderman, Dan Gohman, Christoph Diehl, Atte Kettunen, Tyson Smith,
Jesse Schwartzentruber, John Thomson, Robert O'Callahan, Mariusz Mlynski,
Juri Aedla, George Hotz, and the security research firm VUPEN as the
original reporters of these issues.

Note: All of the above issues cannot be exploited by a specially-crafted
HTML mail message as JavaScript is disabled by default for mail messages.
They could be exploited another way in Thunderbird, for example, when
viewing the full remote content of an RSS feed.

For technical details regarding these flaws, refer to the Mozilla security
advisories for Thunderbird 24.4.0. You can find a link to the Mozilla
advisories in the References section of this erratum.

All Thunderbird users should upgrade to this updated package, which
contains Thunderbird version 24.4.0, which corrects these issues.
After installing the update, Thunderbird must be restarted for the changes
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
https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/11258

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 6.5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 6.5 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 6.5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 6.5 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 6.5 ppc64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 6.5 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 1077013 - CVE-2014-1493 Mozilla: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:24.4) (MFSA 2014-15)
  • BZ - 1077016 - CVE-2014-1497 Mozilla: Out of bounds read during WAV file decoding (MFSA 2014-17)
  • BZ - 1077025 - CVE-2014-1508 Mozilla: Information disclosure through polygon rendering in MathML (MFSA 2014-26)
  • BZ - 1077028 - CVE-2014-1509 Mozilla: Memory corruption in Cairo during PDF font rendering (MFSA 2014-27)
  • BZ - 1077029 - CVE-2014-1505 Mozilla: SVG filters information disclosure through feDisplacementMap (MFSA 2014-28)
  • BZ - 1077490 - CVE-2014-1510 CVE-2014-1511 Mozilla: Privilege escalation using WebIDL-implemented APIs (MFSA 2014-29)
  • BZ - 1077491 - CVE-2014-1512 Mozilla: Use-after-free in TypeObject (MFSA 2014-30)
  • BZ - 1077492 - CVE-2014-1513 Mozilla: Out-of-bounds read/write through neutering ArrayBuffer objects (MFSA 2014-31)
  • BZ - 1077494 - CVE-2014-1514 Mozilla: Out-of-bounds write through TypedArrayObject after neutering (MFSA 2014-32)

CVEs

References

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5

SRPM
x86_64
thunderbird-24.4.0-1.el5_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: f0934de002335cbd4b1b601a6446b2e239dd8ceb07005aeb0c37618e44791c63

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5

SRPM
x86_64
thunderbird-24.4.0-1.el5_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: f0934de002335cbd4b1b601a6446b2e239dd8ceb07005aeb0c37618e44791c63

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5

SRPM
x86_64
thunderbird-24.4.0-1.el5_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: f0934de002335cbd4b1b601a6446b2e239dd8ceb07005aeb0c37618e44791c63

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5

SRPM
x86_64
thunderbird-24.4.0-1.el5_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: f0934de002335cbd4b1b601a6446b2e239dd8ceb07005aeb0c37618e44791c63

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