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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2019:4205 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2019-12-11
Updated:
2019-12-11

RHSA-2019:4205 - Security Advisory

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Synopsis

Important: thunderbird security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Red Hat Insights patch analysis

Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.

View affected systems

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 68.3.0.

Security Fix(es):

  • Mozilla: Use-after-free in worker destruction (CVE-2019-17008)
  • Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 71 and Firefox ESR 68.3 (CVE-2019-17012)
  • Mozilla: Buffer overflow in plain text serializer (CVE-2019-17005)
  • Mozilla: Use-after-free when performing device orientation checks (CVE-2019-17010)
  • Mozilla: Use-after-free when retrieving a document in antitracking (CVE-2019-17011)

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 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 - 1779431 - CVE-2019-17008 Mozilla: Use-after-free in worker destruction
  • BZ - 1779434 - CVE-2019-17010 Mozilla: Use-after-free when performing device orientation checks
  • BZ - 1779435 - CVE-2019-17005 Mozilla: Buffer overflow in plain text serializer
  • BZ - 1779436 - CVE-2019-17011 Mozilla: Use-after-free when retrieving a document in antitracking
  • BZ - 1779437 - CVE-2019-17012 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 71 and Firefox ESR 68.3

CVEs

  • CVE-2019-17005
  • CVE-2019-17008
  • CVE-2019-17010
  • CVE-2019-17011
  • CVE-2019-17012

References

  • https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
  • https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-38/
Note: More recent versions of these packages may be available. Click a package name for more details.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6

SRPM
thunderbird-68.3.0-3.el6_10.src.rpm SHA-256: 2b82d7b6090d8c3831e651a233635a58f0f02ca7ec6f884ce6583a33776b3b42
x86_64
thunderbird-68.3.0-3.el6_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: cc9949cd48e737d75ce7785356e374182848eff5e83c818f02441c762206031b
thunderbird-68.3.0-3.el6_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: cc9949cd48e737d75ce7785356e374182848eff5e83c818f02441c762206031b
thunderbird-debuginfo-68.3.0-3.el6_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 6fd425ee7da83a416492232a0bf0a19f71ddd5da4057b95996e3d5ffc59ceaee
i386
thunderbird-68.3.0-3.el6_10.i686.rpm SHA-256: 6eb800833aac48dcbbb12ff95158c7435add5561f1d045e32df4744165d733a3
thunderbird-debuginfo-68.3.0-3.el6_10.i686.rpm SHA-256: d7c901f1473aa33762662dfeacc28c6f4ef558b026eff92f75d84fa1d2d317e6

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6

SRPM
thunderbird-68.3.0-3.el6_10.src.rpm SHA-256: 2b82d7b6090d8c3831e651a233635a58f0f02ca7ec6f884ce6583a33776b3b42
x86_64
thunderbird-68.3.0-3.el6_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: cc9949cd48e737d75ce7785356e374182848eff5e83c818f02441c762206031b
thunderbird-debuginfo-68.3.0-3.el6_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 6fd425ee7da83a416492232a0bf0a19f71ddd5da4057b95996e3d5ffc59ceaee
i386
thunderbird-68.3.0-3.el6_10.i686.rpm SHA-256: 6eb800833aac48dcbbb12ff95158c7435add5561f1d045e32df4744165d733a3
thunderbird-debuginfo-68.3.0-3.el6_10.i686.rpm SHA-256: d7c901f1473aa33762662dfeacc28c6f4ef558b026eff92f75d84fa1d2d317e6

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6

SRPM
thunderbird-68.3.0-3.el6_10.src.rpm SHA-256: 2b82d7b6090d8c3831e651a233635a58f0f02ca7ec6f884ce6583a33776b3b42
x86_64
thunderbird-68.3.0-3.el6_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: cc9949cd48e737d75ce7785356e374182848eff5e83c818f02441c762206031b
thunderbird-debuginfo-68.3.0-3.el6_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 6fd425ee7da83a416492232a0bf0a19f71ddd5da4057b95996e3d5ffc59ceaee
i386
thunderbird-68.3.0-3.el6_10.i686.rpm SHA-256: 6eb800833aac48dcbbb12ff95158c7435add5561f1d045e32df4744165d733a3
thunderbird-debuginfo-68.3.0-3.el6_10.i686.rpm SHA-256: d7c901f1473aa33762662dfeacc28c6f4ef558b026eff92f75d84fa1d2d317e6

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6

SRPM
thunderbird-68.3.0-3.el6_10.src.rpm SHA-256: 2b82d7b6090d8c3831e651a233635a58f0f02ca7ec6f884ce6583a33776b3b42
x86_64
thunderbird-68.3.0-3.el6_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: cc9949cd48e737d75ce7785356e374182848eff5e83c818f02441c762206031b
thunderbird-debuginfo-68.3.0-3.el6_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 6fd425ee7da83a416492232a0bf0a19f71ddd5da4057b95996e3d5ffc59ceaee
i386
thunderbird-68.3.0-3.el6_10.i686.rpm SHA-256: 6eb800833aac48dcbbb12ff95158c7435add5561f1d045e32df4744165d733a3
thunderbird-debuginfo-68.3.0-3.el6_10.i686.rpm SHA-256: d7c901f1473aa33762662dfeacc28c6f4ef558b026eff92f75d84fa1d2d317e6

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6

SRPM
thunderbird-68.3.0-3.el6_10.src.rpm SHA-256: 2b82d7b6090d8c3831e651a233635a58f0f02ca7ec6f884ce6583a33776b3b42
s390x
thunderbird-68.3.0-3.el6_10.s390x.rpm SHA-256: cf0827a5ee0dae4f32a858d44c9b8e34a7293154836476e82317a7b29326a294
thunderbird-debuginfo-68.3.0-3.el6_10.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 819098935cf405210a4a7b42b8fa298b6b29093bfdd6a00bfb81e1aee6b640ba

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6

SRPM
thunderbird-68.3.0-3.el6_10.src.rpm SHA-256: 2b82d7b6090d8c3831e651a233635a58f0f02ca7ec6f884ce6583a33776b3b42
ppc64
thunderbird-68.3.0-3.el6_10.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: a597f088f0a02ce5261e2d1c34b75e0c43bd4506a357ef1a9733789ee1b22ced
thunderbird-debuginfo-68.3.0-3.el6_10.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: efd28cb660875ec0166ffd285ff5620ebe1380365c406d6f9e7c290e21eb295e

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6

SRPM
thunderbird-68.3.0-3.el6_10.src.rpm SHA-256: 2b82d7b6090d8c3831e651a233635a58f0f02ca7ec6f884ce6583a33776b3b42
s390x
thunderbird-68.3.0-3.el6_10.s390x.rpm SHA-256: cf0827a5ee0dae4f32a858d44c9b8e34a7293154836476e82317a7b29326a294
thunderbird-debuginfo-68.3.0-3.el6_10.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 819098935cf405210a4a7b42b8fa298b6b29093bfdd6a00bfb81e1aee6b640ba

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6

SRPM
thunderbird-68.3.0-3.el6_10.src.rpm SHA-256: 2b82d7b6090d8c3831e651a233635a58f0f02ca7ec6f884ce6583a33776b3b42
x86_64
thunderbird-68.3.0-3.el6_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: cc9949cd48e737d75ce7785356e374182848eff5e83c818f02441c762206031b
thunderbird-debuginfo-68.3.0-3.el6_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 6fd425ee7da83a416492232a0bf0a19f71ddd5da4057b95996e3d5ffc59ceaee
i386
thunderbird-68.3.0-3.el6_10.i686.rpm SHA-256: 6eb800833aac48dcbbb12ff95158c7435add5561f1d045e32df4744165d733a3
thunderbird-debuginfo-68.3.0-3.el6_10.i686.rpm SHA-256: d7c901f1473aa33762662dfeacc28c6f4ef558b026eff92f75d84fa1d2d317e6

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems) 6

SRPM
thunderbird-68.3.0-3.el6_10.src.rpm SHA-256: 2b82d7b6090d8c3831e651a233635a58f0f02ca7ec6f884ce6583a33776b3b42
s390x
thunderbird-68.3.0-3.el6_10.s390x.rpm SHA-256: cf0827a5ee0dae4f32a858d44c9b8e34a7293154836476e82317a7b29326a294
thunderbird-debuginfo-68.3.0-3.el6_10.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 819098935cf405210a4a7b42b8fa298b6b29093bfdd6a00bfb81e1aee6b640ba

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