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 60.2.1.

Security Fix(es):

• Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 62 and Firefox ESR 60.2 (CVE-2018-12376)
  
• Mozilla: Use-after-free in driver timers (CVE-2018-12377)
  
• Mozilla: Use-after-free in IndexedDB (CVE-2018-12378)
  
• Mozilla: Proxy bypass using automount and autofs (CVE-2017-16541)
  
• Mozilla: Out-of-bounds write with malicious MAR file (CVE-2018-12379)
  
• Mozilla: Crash in TransportSecurityInfo due to cached data (CVE-2018-12385)
  
• Mozilla: Setting a master password post-Firefox 58 does not delete unencrypted previously stored passwords (CVE-2018-12383)
  

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

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, Boris Zbarsky, Christoph Diehl, Christian Holler, Jason Kratzer, Jed Davis, Tyson Smith, Bogdan Tara, Karl Tomlinson, Mats Palmgren, Nika Layzell, Ted Campbell, Nils, Zhanjia Song, Holger Fuhrmannek, Philipp, and Jurgen Gaeremyn 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 - 1510816 - CVE-2017-16541 Mozilla: Proxy bypass using automount and autofs
• BZ - 1625525 - CVE-2018-12376 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 62 and Firefox ESR 60.2
• BZ - 1625526 - CVE-2018-12377 Mozilla: Use-after-free in driver timers
• BZ - 1625527 - CVE-2018-12378 Mozilla: Use-after-free in IndexedDB
• BZ - 1625528 - CVE-2018-12379 Mozilla: Out-of-bounds write with malicious MAR file
• BZ - 1625531 - CVE-2018-12383 Mozilla: Setting a master password post-Firefox 58 does not delete unencrypted previously stored passwords
• BZ - 1632062 - CVE-2018-12385 Mozilla: Crash in TransportSecurityInfo due to cached data

CVEs

• CVE-2017-16541
• CVE-2018-12376
• CVE-2018-12377
• CVE-2018-12378
• CVE-2018-12379
• CVE-2018-12383
• CVE-2018-12385

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-25/

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6

SRPM
thunderbird-60.2.1-5.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: 285a2fd238176f32b9d92f4997d03437e7d4e45f0d2bfc72a0683f35dfaeb281
x86_64
thunderbird-60.2.1-5.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 741a72a5955e2b852e085fa1983f8e922b05e4e653c6cbefad2f0c1c1c3ed968
thunderbird-debuginfo-60.2.1-5.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 552095855a5ff0c0b49dc421fb6a1e9516af1c0a11c57c91a0ea41f772b375c0
i386
thunderbird-60.2.1-5.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: b5a8e9ed0a220208d7734aaf6cb4c8e04f72f3d9547a14145158ae951b21b1be
thunderbird-debuginfo-60.2.1-5.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: cf23d685c2b6e73a2251d2fd4af2d737b1601c4f845adf6479b46a6a684c02f8

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6

SRPM
thunderbird-60.2.1-5.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: 285a2fd238176f32b9d92f4997d03437e7d4e45f0d2bfc72a0683f35dfaeb281
x86_64
thunderbird-60.2.1-5.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 741a72a5955e2b852e085fa1983f8e922b05e4e653c6cbefad2f0c1c1c3ed968
thunderbird-debuginfo-60.2.1-5.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 552095855a5ff0c0b49dc421fb6a1e9516af1c0a11c57c91a0ea41f772b375c0
i386
thunderbird-60.2.1-5.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: b5a8e9ed0a220208d7734aaf6cb4c8e04f72f3d9547a14145158ae951b21b1be
thunderbird-debuginfo-60.2.1-5.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: cf23d685c2b6e73a2251d2fd4af2d737b1601c4f845adf6479b46a6a684c02f8

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6

SRPM
thunderbird-60.2.1-5.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: 285a2fd238176f32b9d92f4997d03437e7d4e45f0d2bfc72a0683f35dfaeb281
x86_64
thunderbird-60.2.1-5.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 741a72a5955e2b852e085fa1983f8e922b05e4e653c6cbefad2f0c1c1c3ed968
thunderbird-debuginfo-60.2.1-5.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 552095855a5ff0c0b49dc421fb6a1e9516af1c0a11c57c91a0ea41f772b375c0
i386
thunderbird-60.2.1-5.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: b5a8e9ed0a220208d7734aaf6cb4c8e04f72f3d9547a14145158ae951b21b1be
thunderbird-debuginfo-60.2.1-5.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: cf23d685c2b6e73a2251d2fd4af2d737b1601c4f845adf6479b46a6a684c02f8

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6

SRPM
thunderbird-60.2.1-5.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: 285a2fd238176f32b9d92f4997d03437e7d4e45f0d2bfc72a0683f35dfaeb281
s390x
thunderbird-60.2.1-5.el6.s390x.rpm	SHA-256: fa7ea9f1888ce80c70a0a74de6ce20df9e8afeb0b9427478c10d63a3492b3c08
thunderbird-debuginfo-60.2.1-5.el6.s390x.rpm	SHA-256: 1295ebd9e17b716a5a14e2139e7f945c91a96083363da4fc8fe5c32d02d55fe5

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6

SRPM
thunderbird-60.2.1-5.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: 285a2fd238176f32b9d92f4997d03437e7d4e45f0d2bfc72a0683f35dfaeb281
ppc64
thunderbird-60.2.1-5.el6.ppc64.rpm	SHA-256: 93be2cb1368b3083634a4ebeb95b15dc21ed35c82718996530b176a323fcd2c3
thunderbird-debuginfo-60.2.1-5.el6.ppc64.rpm	SHA-256: 633d3b942fe5d8b467dd5369eb6f5fa1d503822ddb9444c73bafb55857594999