Synopsis

Important: thunderbird security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

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

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 52.7.0.

Security Fix(es):

• Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 59 and Firefox ESR 52.7 (MFSA 2018-07) (CVE-2018-5125)
  
• Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 52.7 (MFSA 2018-07) (CVE-2018-5145)
  
• Mozilla: Vorbis audio processing out of bounds write (MFSA 2018-08) (CVE-2018-5146)
  
• Mozilla: Buffer overflow manipulating SVG animatedPathSegList (MFSA 2018-07) (CVE-2018-5127)
  
• Mozilla: Out-of-bounds write with malformed IPC messages (MFSA 2018-07) (CVE-2018-5129)
  
• Mozilla: Integer overflow during Unicode conversion (MFSA 2018-07) (CVE-2018-5144)
  

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Bob Clary, Olli Pettay, Christian Holler, Nils Ohlmeier, Randell Jesup, Tyson Smith, Ralph Giles, Philipp, Jet Villegas, Richard Zhu via Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative, Nils, James Grant, and Root Object 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 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

Fixes

• BZ - 1555127 - CVE-2018-5125 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 59 and Firefox ESR 52.7 (MFSA 2018-07)
• BZ - 1555128 - CVE-2018-5127 Mozilla: Buffer overflow manipulating SVG animatedPathSegList (MFSA 2018-07)
• BZ - 1555129 - CVE-2018-5129 Mozilla: Out-of-bounds write with malformed IPC messages (MFSA 2018-07)
• BZ - 1555132 - CVE-2018-5144 Mozilla: Integer overflow during Unicode conversion (MFSA 2018-07)
• BZ - 1555133 - CVE-2018-5145 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 52.7 (MFSA 2018-07)
• BZ - 1557221 - CVE-2018-5146 Mozilla: Vorbis audio processing out of bounds write (MFSA 2018-08)

CVEs

• CVE-2018-5125
• CVE-2018-5127
• CVE-2018-5129
• CVE-2018-5144
• CVE-2018-5145
• CVE-2018-5146

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-09/

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6

SRPM
thunderbird-52.7.0-1.el6_9.src.rpm	SHA-256: c17ff8f7b43a670e539baf2fbe30a6227d50a91fbcdf87cc490a65600e902e5d
x86_64
thunderbird-52.7.0-1.el6_9.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: b3b611d6223cfcd7379f77d68a014036112b004215653379adc0ab021a74885e
thunderbird-debuginfo-52.7.0-1.el6_9.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: ff816124d25ce699503e443627e4d065b8500fe565d5f84fce07fc82b7eaa1e9
i386
thunderbird-52.7.0-1.el6_9.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 8712a49d7b9320e72dc88d84106cced9268112f050395f7a725ab6fc200de6a0
thunderbird-debuginfo-52.7.0-1.el6_9.i686.rpm	SHA-256: d72ee2b908bc26d64a13c94714a591417d41428ae9101b849175501189a097de

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6

SRPM
thunderbird-52.7.0-1.el6_9.src.rpm	SHA-256: c17ff8f7b43a670e539baf2fbe30a6227d50a91fbcdf87cc490a65600e902e5d
x86_64
thunderbird-52.7.0-1.el6_9.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: b3b611d6223cfcd7379f77d68a014036112b004215653379adc0ab021a74885e
thunderbird-debuginfo-52.7.0-1.el6_9.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: ff816124d25ce699503e443627e4d065b8500fe565d5f84fce07fc82b7eaa1e9
i386
thunderbird-52.7.0-1.el6_9.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 8712a49d7b9320e72dc88d84106cced9268112f050395f7a725ab6fc200de6a0
thunderbird-debuginfo-52.7.0-1.el6_9.i686.rpm	SHA-256: d72ee2b908bc26d64a13c94714a591417d41428ae9101b849175501189a097de

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6

SRPM
thunderbird-52.7.0-1.el6_9.src.rpm	SHA-256: c17ff8f7b43a670e539baf2fbe30a6227d50a91fbcdf87cc490a65600e902e5d
x86_64
thunderbird-52.7.0-1.el6_9.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: b3b611d6223cfcd7379f77d68a014036112b004215653379adc0ab021a74885e
thunderbird-debuginfo-52.7.0-1.el6_9.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: ff816124d25ce699503e443627e4d065b8500fe565d5f84fce07fc82b7eaa1e9
i386
thunderbird-52.7.0-1.el6_9.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 8712a49d7b9320e72dc88d84106cced9268112f050395f7a725ab6fc200de6a0
thunderbird-debuginfo-52.7.0-1.el6_9.i686.rpm	SHA-256: d72ee2b908bc26d64a13c94714a591417d41428ae9101b849175501189a097de

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6

SRPM
thunderbird-52.7.0-1.el6_9.src.rpm	SHA-256: c17ff8f7b43a670e539baf2fbe30a6227d50a91fbcdf87cc490a65600e902e5d
s390x
thunderbird-52.7.0-1.el6_9.s390x.rpm	SHA-256: 5f809239eb29ec1375ba3a609fa30f64976b1cd38379f0d1e723289be9a9f32f
thunderbird-debuginfo-52.7.0-1.el6_9.s390x.rpm	SHA-256: 88f9de944d758c36f7d3ad80e14cf2a8472752ccf27444c0b46121bd4c0fdb95

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6

SRPM
thunderbird-52.7.0-1.el6_9.src.rpm	SHA-256: c17ff8f7b43a670e539baf2fbe30a6227d50a91fbcdf87cc490a65600e902e5d
ppc64
thunderbird-52.7.0-1.el6_9.ppc64.rpm	SHA-256: a576c405f4f8c684dda64e28c54fb11fe03d3b6a974e470d251fcb75ad52a9ad
thunderbird-debuginfo-52.7.0-1.el6_9.ppc64.rpm	SHA-256: e90ed37fce3c1930122c6888ecb48fc1d45d128fa0342fc7ed253fc230c48e9a