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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 60.8.0.

Security Fix(es):

• Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 68 and Firefox ESR 60.8 (CVE-2019-11709)
• Mozilla: Sandbox escape via installation of malicious language pack (CVE-2019-9811)
• Mozilla: Script injection within domain through inner window reuse (CVE-2019-11711)
• Mozilla: Cross-origin POST requests can be made with NPAPI plugins by following 308 redirects (CVE-2019-11712)
• Mozilla: Use-after-free with HTTP/2 cached stream (CVE-2019-11713)
• Mozilla: HTML parsing error can contribute to content XSS (CVE-2019-11715)
• Mozilla: Caret character improperly escaped in origins (CVE-2019-11717)
• Mozilla: Same-origin policy treats all files in a directory as having the same-origin (CVE-2019-11730)

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.

Bug Fix(es):

• Thunderbird fails to authenticate with gmail with ssl/tls and OAuth2 (BZ#1725919)

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 x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.1 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.1 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.0 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.0 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1725919 - Thunderbird fails to authenticate with gmail with ssl/tls and OAuth2
• BZ - 1728430 - CVE-2019-11709 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 68 and Firefox ESR 60.8
• BZ - 1728431 - CVE-2019-11711 Mozilla: Script injection within domain through inner window reuse
• BZ - 1728432 - CVE-2019-11712 Mozilla: Cross-origin POST requests can be made with NPAPI plugins by following 308 redirects
• BZ - 1728433 - CVE-2019-11713 Mozilla: Use-after-free with HTTP/2 cached stream
• BZ - 1728434 - CVE-2019-11715 Mozilla: HTML parsing error can contribute to content XSS
• BZ - 1728435 - CVE-2019-11717 Mozilla: Caret character improperly escaped in origins
• BZ - 1728438 - CVE-2019-11730 Mozilla: Same-origin policy treats all files in a directory as having the same-origin
• BZ - 1728439 - CVE-2019-9811 Mozilla: Sandbox escape via installation of malicious language pack

CVEs

• CVE-2019-9811
• CVE-2019-11709
• CVE-2019-11711
• CVE-2019-11712
• CVE-2019-11713
• CVE-2019-11715
• CVE-2019-11717
• CVE-2019-11730

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-23/