Synopsis

Important: thunderbird security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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. (BZ#1692449)

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 for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 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
• BZ - 1692449 - update tb to ESR 60.6

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/

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8

SRPM
thunderbird-60.6.1-1.el8.src.rpm	SHA-256: ae51d289c46135733068a6bba0119526ca3fc40637ea9e8046e2fce79d116834
x86_64
thunderbird-60.6.1-1.el8.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 745903a086fa5117cd430c33335259a6b2fc6a5158f8eb1a2db88ede8aeda9cf
thunderbird-debuginfo-60.6.1-1.el8.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 66271a03926573c7c9443587eb0c3df96aa2d3ee1b7df3d2b3d9ba5eb2e74580
thunderbird-debugsource-60.6.1-1.el8.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 120bfb170970fe6afec13a4d3581bc77128b8ed12690d0a33b44507a3cb9fcdf

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8

SRPM
thunderbird-60.6.1-1.el8.src.rpm	SHA-256: ae51d289c46135733068a6bba0119526ca3fc40637ea9e8046e2fce79d116834
ppc64le
thunderbird-60.6.1-1.el8.ppc64le.rpm	SHA-256: 45b381b43b77260da11166c01303082b8b30b6e19a598a0de95dcc6fb7d427c5
thunderbird-debuginfo-60.6.1-1.el8.ppc64le.rpm	SHA-256: 53d0160e7743945517e3ef38330fe74cb9a64195c49b8b2d569840e8501348dc
thunderbird-debugsource-60.6.1-1.el8.ppc64le.rpm	SHA-256: 02d7b4b3fe620721d795e5a43ad05bedcaa7bbf5a49fbc2848f8ec319674a483