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 52.9.1.

Security Fix(es):

• Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 61, Firefox ESR 60.1, and Firefox ESR 52.9 (CVE-2018-5188)
  
• Mozilla: Buffer overflow using computed size of canvas element (CVE-2018-12359)
  
• Mozilla: Use-after-free using focus() (CVE-2018-12360)
  
• Mozilla: Integer overflow in SSSE3 scaler (CVE-2018-12362)
  
• Mozilla: Use-after-free when appending DOM nodes (CVE-2018-12363)
  
• Mozilla: CSRF attacks through 307 redirects and NPAPI plugins (CVE-2018-12364)
  
• thunderbird: S/MIME and PGP decryption oracles can be built with HTML emails (CVE-2018-12372)
  
• thunderbird: S/MIME plaintext can be leaked through HTML reply/forward (CVE-2018-12373)
  
• Mozilla: Compromised IPC child process can list local filenames (CVE-2018-12365)
  
• Mozilla: Invalid data handling during QCMS transformations (CVE-2018-12366)
  
• thunderbird: Using form to exfiltrate encrypted mail part by pressing enter in form field (CVE-2018-12374)
  

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 Alex Gaynor, Christoph Diehl, Christian Holler, Jason Kratzer, David Major, Jon Coppeard, Nicolas B. Pierron, Marcia Knous, Ronald Crane, Nils, F. Alonso (revskills), David Black, and OSS-Fuzz 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 - 1595024 - CVE-2018-12359 Mozilla: Buffer overflow using computed size of canvas element
• BZ - 1595025 - CVE-2018-12360 Mozilla: Use-after-free using focus()
• BZ - 1595027 - CVE-2018-12362 Mozilla: Integer overflow in SSSE3 scaler
• BZ - 1595028 - CVE-2018-12363 Mozilla: Use-after-free when appending DOM nodes
• BZ - 1595029 - CVE-2018-12364 Mozilla: CSRF attacks through 307 redirects and NPAPI plugins
• BZ - 1595030 - CVE-2018-12365 Mozilla: Compromised IPC child process can list local filenames
• BZ - 1595031 - CVE-2018-12366 Mozilla: Invalid data handling during QCMS transformations
• BZ - 1595040 - CVE-2018-5188 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 61, Firefox ESR 60.1, and Firefox ESR 52.9
• BZ - 1598529 - CVE-2018-12373 thunderbird: S/MIME plaintext can be leaked through HTML reply/forward
• BZ - 1598538 - CVE-2018-12372 thunderbird: S/MIME and PGP decryption oracles can be built with HTML emails
• BZ - 1598543 - CVE-2018-12374 thunderbird: Using form to exfiltrate encrypted mail part by pressing enter in form field

CVEs

• CVE-2018-5188
• CVE-2018-12359
• CVE-2018-12360
• CVE-2018-12362
• CVE-2018-12363
• CVE-2018-12364
• CVE-2018-12365
• CVE-2018-12366
• CVE-2018-12372
• CVE-2018-12373
• CVE-2018-12374

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-18/

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6

SRPM
thunderbird-52.9.1-1.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: a030fcb3b1bfeab0049bb0120696565395b89b5efcc50df188676cd72bcf2987
x86_64
thunderbird-52.9.1-1.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 0450acc8273aa1362d373a57c382cbe02d6caa1393431822b67472727646daae
thunderbird-debuginfo-52.9.1-1.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: e51d48b2b50f574c13dd375e7a5e78cd6c71fd46e11d66fc27e4a304fb2b2c36
i386
thunderbird-52.9.1-1.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: a3ebc7b42aebb30252ee6cb003ed9a73003901c9f890cd01d709db9c5f4a6aeb
thunderbird-debuginfo-52.9.1-1.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 2dae102eb1f955d152c732cd956c3be12a9a3b82046fc7404073711150255d1e

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6

SRPM
thunderbird-52.9.1-1.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: a030fcb3b1bfeab0049bb0120696565395b89b5efcc50df188676cd72bcf2987
x86_64
thunderbird-52.9.1-1.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 0450acc8273aa1362d373a57c382cbe02d6caa1393431822b67472727646daae
thunderbird-debuginfo-52.9.1-1.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: e51d48b2b50f574c13dd375e7a5e78cd6c71fd46e11d66fc27e4a304fb2b2c36
i386
thunderbird-52.9.1-1.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: a3ebc7b42aebb30252ee6cb003ed9a73003901c9f890cd01d709db9c5f4a6aeb
thunderbird-debuginfo-52.9.1-1.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 2dae102eb1f955d152c732cd956c3be12a9a3b82046fc7404073711150255d1e

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6

SRPM
thunderbird-52.9.1-1.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: a030fcb3b1bfeab0049bb0120696565395b89b5efcc50df188676cd72bcf2987
x86_64
thunderbird-52.9.1-1.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 0450acc8273aa1362d373a57c382cbe02d6caa1393431822b67472727646daae
thunderbird-debuginfo-52.9.1-1.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: e51d48b2b50f574c13dd375e7a5e78cd6c71fd46e11d66fc27e4a304fb2b2c36
i386
thunderbird-52.9.1-1.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: a3ebc7b42aebb30252ee6cb003ed9a73003901c9f890cd01d709db9c5f4a6aeb
thunderbird-debuginfo-52.9.1-1.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 2dae102eb1f955d152c732cd956c3be12a9a3b82046fc7404073711150255d1e

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6

SRPM
thunderbird-52.9.1-1.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: a030fcb3b1bfeab0049bb0120696565395b89b5efcc50df188676cd72bcf2987
s390x
thunderbird-52.9.1-1.el6.s390x.rpm	SHA-256: 461022b5403570b8f99f6d1e232865bb8f909b0bd842867c3aa4fe971ccd7d21
thunderbird-debuginfo-52.9.1-1.el6.s390x.rpm	SHA-256: 0bae570dbfac327a7dcdf696e56bc349758a9d99fcb781279617f6f1a81dac3c

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6

SRPM
thunderbird-52.9.1-1.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: a030fcb3b1bfeab0049bb0120696565395b89b5efcc50df188676cd72bcf2987
ppc64
thunderbird-52.9.1-1.el6.ppc64.rpm	SHA-256: 8d10f4c8f58857260a483a464e34840ac8fbefc7ce02a4de8259fefd83b4acc2
thunderbird-debuginfo-52.9.1-1.el6.ppc64.rpm	SHA-256: 8ccbc9d2ee3668276b503b3ef419d9d5ad6a0b32657826a73c70693f009cc8be