Synopsis

Important: thunderbird security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 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 52.2.0.

Security Fix(es):

• Multiple 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-2017-5470, CVE-2017-5472, CVE-2017-7749, CVE-2017-7750, CVE-2017-7751, CVE-2017-7756, CVE-2017-7771, CVE-2017-7772, CVE-2017-7773, CVE-2017-7774, CVE-2017-7775, CVE-2017-7776, CVE-2017-7777, CVE-2017-7778, CVE-2017-7752, CVE-2017-7754, CVE-2017-7757, CVE-2017-7758, CVE-2017-7764)

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Nils, Nicolas Trippar (Zimperium zLabs), Tyson Smith, Mats Palmgren, Philipp, Masayuki Nakano, Christian Holler, Andrew McCreight, Gary Kwong, André Bargull, Carsten Book, Jesse Schwartzentruber, Julian Hector, Marcia Knous, Ronald Crane, Samuel Erb, Holger Fuhrmannek, Abhishek Arya, and F. Alonso (revskills) as the original reporters.

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 Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
• 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 for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.5 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.3 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.3 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.3 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1461252 - CVE-2017-5472 Mozilla: Use-after-free using destroyed node when regenerating trees (MFSA 2017-16)
• BZ - 1461253 - CVE-2017-7749 Mozilla: Use-after-free during docshell reloading (MFSA 2017-16)
• BZ - 1461254 - CVE-2017-7750 Mozilla: Use-after-free with track elements (MFSA 2017-16)
• BZ - 1461255 - CVE-2017-7751 Mozilla: Use-after-free with content viewer listeners (MFSA 2017-16)
• BZ - 1461256 - CVE-2017-7752 Mozilla: Use-after-free with IME input (MFSA 2017-16)
• BZ - 1461257 - CVE-2017-7754 Mozilla: Out-of-bounds read in WebGL with ImageInfo object (MFSA 2017-16)
• BZ - 1461258 - CVE-2017-7756 Mozilla: Use-after-free and use-after-scope logging XHR header errors (MFSA 2017-16)
• BZ - 1461259 - CVE-2017-7757 Mozilla: Use-after-free in IndexedDB (MFSA 2017-16)
• BZ - 1461260 - CVE-2017-7778 CVE-2017-7771 CVE-2017-7772 CVE-2017-7773 CVE-2017-7774 CVE-2017-7775 CVE-2017-7776 CVE-2017-7777 CVE-2017-7778 Mozilla: Vulnerabilities in the Graphite 2 library (MFSA 2017-16)
• BZ - 1461261 - CVE-2017-7758 Mozilla: Out-of-bounds read in Opus encoder (MFSA 2017-16)
• BZ - 1461262 - CVE-2017-7764 Mozilla: Domain spoofing with combination of Canadian Syllabics and other unicode blocks (MFSA 2017-16)
• BZ - 1461264 - CVE-2017-5470 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 54 and Firefox ESR 52.2 (MFSA 2017-16)

CVEs

• CVE-2017-5470
• CVE-2017-5472
• CVE-2017-7749
• CVE-2017-7750
• CVE-2017-7751
• CVE-2017-7752
• CVE-2017-7754
• CVE-2017-7756
• CVE-2017-7757
• CVE-2017-7758
• CVE-2017-7764
• CVE-2017-7771
• CVE-2017-7772
• CVE-2017-7773
• CVE-2017-7774
• CVE-2017-7775
• CVE-2017-7776
• CVE-2017-7777
• CVE-2017-7778

References