RHSA-2019:0681 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

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 60.6.1.

Security Fix(es):

• Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 66 and Firefox ESR 60.6 (CVE-2019-9788)
• Mozilla: Use-after-free when removing in-use DOM elements (CVE-2019-9790)
• Mozilla: Type inference is incorrect for constructors entered through on-stack replacement with IonMonkey (CVE-2019-9791)
• Mozilla: IonMonkey leaks JS_OPTIMIZED_OUT magic value to script (CVE-2019-9792)
• Mozilla: IonMonkey MArraySlice has incorrect alias information (CVE-2019-9810)
• Mozilla: Ionmonkey type confusion with __proto__ mutations (CVE-2019-9813)
• Mozilla: Improper bounds checks when Spectre mitigations are disabled (CVE-2019-9793)
• Mozilla: Type-confusion in IonMonkey JIT compiler (CVE-2019-9795)
• Mozilla: Use-after-free with SMIL animation controller (CVE-2019-9796)
• Mozilla: Proxy Auto-Configuration file can define localhost access to be proxied (CVE-2018-18506)

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

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 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 7 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power 9 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1690673 - CVE-2018-18506 Mozilla: Proxy Auto-Configuration file can define localhost access to be proxied
• BZ - 1690674 - CVE-2019-9788 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 66 and Firefox ESR 60.6
• BZ - 1690675 - CVE-2019-9790 Mozilla: Use-after-free when removing in-use DOM elements
• BZ - 1690676 - CVE-2019-9791 Mozilla: Type inference is incorrect for constructors entered through on-stack replacement with IonMonkey
• BZ - 1690677 - CVE-2019-9792 Mozilla: IonMonkey leaks JS_OPTIMIZED_OUT magic value to script
• BZ - 1690678 - CVE-2019-9793 Mozilla: Improper bounds checks when Spectre mitigations are disabled
• BZ - 1690680 - CVE-2019-9795 Mozilla: Type-confusion in IonMonkey JIT compiler
• BZ - 1690681 - CVE-2019-9796 Mozilla: Use-after-free with SMIL animation controller
• BZ - 1692181 - CVE-2019-9810 Mozilla: IonMonkey MArraySlice has incorrect alias information
• BZ - 1692182 - CVE-2019-9813 Mozilla: Ionmonkey type confusion with __proto__ mutations

CVEs

• CVE-2018-18356
• CVE-2018-18506
• CVE-2018-18509
• CVE-2019-5785
• CVE-2019-9788
• CVE-2019-9790
• CVE-2019-9791
• CVE-2019-9792
• CVE-2019-9793
• CVE-2019-9795
• CVE-2019-9796
• CVE-2019-9810
• CVE-2019-9813

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-11/
• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-12/