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 60.4.0.

Security Fix(es):

• Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 64 and Firefox ESR 60.4 (CVE-2018-12405)
  
• chromium-browser, firefox: Memory corruption in Angle (CVE-2018-17466)
  
• Mozilla: Use-after-free with select element (CVE-2018-18492)
  
• Mozilla: Buffer overflow in accelerated 2D canvas with Skia (CVE-2018-18493)
  
• Mozilla: Same-origin policy violation using location attribute and performance.getEntries to steal cross-origin URLs (CVE-2018-18494)
  
• Mozilla: Integer overflow when calculating buffer sizes for images (CVE-2018-18498)
  

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, Diego Calleja, Andrew McCreight, Jon Coppeard, Natalia Csoregi, Nicolas B. Pierron, Tyson Smith, Nils, Atte Kettunen, James Lee of Kryptos Logic, and r 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 - 1640102 - CVE-2018-17466 chromium-browser, firefox: Memory corruption in Angle
• BZ - 1658397 - CVE-2018-12405 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 64 and Firefox ESR 60.4
• BZ - 1658399 - CVE-2018-18492 Mozilla: Use-after-free with select element
• BZ - 1658400 - CVE-2018-18493 Mozilla: Buffer overflow in accelerated 2D canvas with Skia
• BZ - 1658401 - CVE-2018-18494 Mozilla: Same-origin policy violation using location attribute and performance.getEntries to steal cross-origin URLs
• BZ - 1658402 - CVE-2018-18498 Mozilla: Integer overflow when calculating buffer sizes for images

CVEs

• CVE-2018-12405
• CVE-2018-17466
• CVE-2018-18492
• CVE-2018-18493
• CVE-2018-18494
• CVE-2018-18498

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-31/

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6

SRPM
thunderbird-60.4.0-1.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: c18e1c6204225e3057d522cd481d6b584c97fe70ab80debb263524f27a31f10a
x86_64
thunderbird-60.4.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: dd9d6d72408cd559a250e7697ec343a3398d2fc5ee769d84e7a326ff8de152e0
thunderbird-debuginfo-60.4.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 4b8ec7160b1f9f5d12afc6783d60a21fb09ec5b1e5fc47f1f381a534ae985b25
i386
thunderbird-60.4.0-1.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: f155269e49e2bbc61731d22b9e7aa01510d265dec29d1157214836b03430249d
thunderbird-debuginfo-60.4.0-1.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 4623419f9f09783866c3c455b78bc5886c9262f62a60452f514c9b62e6b3511d

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6

SRPM
thunderbird-60.4.0-1.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: c18e1c6204225e3057d522cd481d6b584c97fe70ab80debb263524f27a31f10a
x86_64
thunderbird-60.4.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: dd9d6d72408cd559a250e7697ec343a3398d2fc5ee769d84e7a326ff8de152e0
thunderbird-debuginfo-60.4.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 4b8ec7160b1f9f5d12afc6783d60a21fb09ec5b1e5fc47f1f381a534ae985b25
i386
thunderbird-60.4.0-1.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: f155269e49e2bbc61731d22b9e7aa01510d265dec29d1157214836b03430249d
thunderbird-debuginfo-60.4.0-1.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 4623419f9f09783866c3c455b78bc5886c9262f62a60452f514c9b62e6b3511d

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6

SRPM
thunderbird-60.4.0-1.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: c18e1c6204225e3057d522cd481d6b584c97fe70ab80debb263524f27a31f10a
x86_64
thunderbird-60.4.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: dd9d6d72408cd559a250e7697ec343a3398d2fc5ee769d84e7a326ff8de152e0
thunderbird-debuginfo-60.4.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 4b8ec7160b1f9f5d12afc6783d60a21fb09ec5b1e5fc47f1f381a534ae985b25
i386
thunderbird-60.4.0-1.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: f155269e49e2bbc61731d22b9e7aa01510d265dec29d1157214836b03430249d
thunderbird-debuginfo-60.4.0-1.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 4623419f9f09783866c3c455b78bc5886c9262f62a60452f514c9b62e6b3511d

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6

SRPM
thunderbird-60.4.0-1.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: c18e1c6204225e3057d522cd481d6b584c97fe70ab80debb263524f27a31f10a
s390x
thunderbird-60.4.0-1.el6.s390x.rpm	SHA-256: 1c79a758f7c3c371313c798e6bb77c4d00a95d7d9a7475d5a8a3565950c0d241
thunderbird-debuginfo-60.4.0-1.el6.s390x.rpm	SHA-256: dad4485b0e1a73dc253ad11c4834454faea828143feed9addd318142e76e7edc

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6

SRPM
thunderbird-60.4.0-1.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: c18e1c6204225e3057d522cd481d6b584c97fe70ab80debb263524f27a31f10a
ppc64
thunderbird-60.4.0-1.el6.ppc64.rpm	SHA-256: 53b4a4f04a14a6212fe2baf490438da51daa5bac3a05017564e7f2702ccba68d
thunderbird-debuginfo-60.4.0-1.el6.ppc64.rpm	SHA-256: 058986f6f8106b814bab87aca073b4c9feda04e4262f19b4a1377e83b171df3d