Synopsis

Important: thunderbird security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

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 68.5.0.

Security Fix(es):

• Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 73 and Firefox ESR 68.5 (CVE-2020-6800)
• Mozilla: Out-of-bounds read when processing certain email messages (CVE-2020-6793)
• Mozilla: Setting a master password post-Thunderbird 52 does not delete unencrypted previously stored passwords (CVE-2020-6794)
• Mozilla: Crash processing S/MIME messages with multiple signatures (CVE-2020-6795)
• Mozilla: Incorrect parsing of template tag could result in JavaScript injection (CVE-2020-6798)
• Mozilla: Message ID calculation was based on uninitialized data (CVE-2020-6792)

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 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.7 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 7.7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.7 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1801918 - CVE-2020-6798 Mozilla: Incorrect parsing of template tag could result in JavaScript injection
• BZ - 1801920 - CVE-2020-6800 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 73 and Firefox ESR 68.5
• BZ - 1801955 - CVE-2020-6793 Mozilla: Out-of-bounds read when processing certain email messages
• BZ - 1801956 - CVE-2020-6794 Mozilla: Setting a master password post-Thunderbird 52 does not delete unencrypted previously stored passwords
• BZ - 1801957 - CVE-2020-6795 Mozilla: Crash processing S/MIME messages with multiple signatures
• BZ - 1801958 - CVE-2020-6792 Mozilla: Message ID calculation was based on uninitialized data

CVEs

• CVE-2020-6792
• CVE-2020-6793
• CVE-2020-6794
• CVE-2020-6795
• CVE-2020-6798
• CVE-2020-6800

References