RHSA-2018:3531 - Security Advisory

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 60.3.0.

Security Fix(es):

• Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 63 and Firefox ESR 60.3 (CVE-2018-12390)
• Mozilla: Crash with nested event loops (CVE-2018-12392)
• Mozilla: Integer overflow during Unicode conversion while loading JavaScript (CVE-2018-12393)
• Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 60.3 (CVE-2018-12389)

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 Christian Holler, Bob Owen, Boris Zbarsky, Calixte Denizet, Jason Kratzer, Jed Davis, Taegeon Lee, Philipp, Ronald Crane, Raul Gurzau, Gary Kwong, Tyson Smith, Raymond Forbes, Bogdan Tara, Nils, r, and Daniel Veditz 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 Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 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
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 1642179 - CVE-2018-12389 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 60.3
• BZ - 1642180 - CVE-2018-12390 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 63 and Firefox ESR 60.3
• BZ - 1642182 - CVE-2018-12392 Mozilla: Crash with nested event loops
• BZ - 1642183 - CVE-2018-12393 Mozilla: Integer overflow during Unicode conversion while loading JavaScript

CVEs

• CVE-2018-12389
• CVE-2018-12390
• CVE-2018-12392
• CVE-2018-12393

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important