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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:0914 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2020-03-23
Updated:
2020-03-23

RHSA-2020:0914 - 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 68.6.0.

Security Fix(es):

  • Mozilla: Use-after-free when removing data about origins (CVE-2020-6805)
  • Mozilla: BodyStream::OnInputStreamReady was missing protections against state confusion (CVE-2020-6806)
  • Mozilla: Use-after-free in cubeb during stream destruction (CVE-2020-6807)
  • Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 74 and Firefox ESR 68.6 (CVE-2020-6814)
  • Mozilla: Out of bounds reads in sctp_load_addresses_from_init (CVE-2019-20503)
  • Mozilla: Devtools' 'Copy as cURL' feature did not fully escape website-controlled data, potentially leading to command injection (CVE-2020-6811)
  • Mozilla: The names of AirPods with personally identifiable information were exposed to websites with camera or microphone permission (CVE-2020-6812)

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 - 1812199 - CVE-2020-6805 Mozilla: Use-after-free when removing data about origins
  • BZ - 1812200 - CVE-2020-6806 Mozilla: BodyStream::OnInputStreamReady was missing protections against state confusion
  • BZ - 1812201 - CVE-2020-6807 Mozilla: Use-after-free in cubeb during stream destruction
  • BZ - 1812202 - CVE-2020-6811 Mozilla: Devtools' 'Copy as cURL' feature did not fully escape website-controlled data, potentially leading to command injection
  • BZ - 1812203 - CVE-2019-20503 Mozilla: Out of bounds reads in sctp_load_addresses_from_init
  • BZ - 1812204 - CVE-2020-6812 Mozilla: The names of AirPods with personally identifiable information were exposed to websites with camera or microphone permission
  • BZ - 1812205 - CVE-2020-6814 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 74 and Firefox ESR 68.6

CVEs

  • CVE-2019-20503
  • CVE-2020-6805
  • CVE-2020-6806
  • CVE-2020-6807
  • CVE-2020-6811
  • CVE-2020-6812
  • CVE-2020-6814

References

  • https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
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-68.6.0-1.el6_10.src.rpm SHA-256: ce0d5ea215de66301d921d17046c5b07b7ffcf19d97c77c6499bf719f7389b8e
x86_64
thunderbird-68.6.0-1.el6_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 30f208af8a64a75a9be34080a8327233aa76b2a522465faf05d0fd6c2f6d494d
thunderbird-68.6.0-1.el6_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 30f208af8a64a75a9be34080a8327233aa76b2a522465faf05d0fd6c2f6d494d
thunderbird-debuginfo-68.6.0-1.el6_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: fede678ef6082e3ee7c48bd1907251d1ff2b98deb92c40921462d713e4e2b232
i386
thunderbird-68.6.0-1.el6_10.i686.rpm SHA-256: 15871e68c78a7d453a03cde42b59556aa96c5f025c0d4a43d2b7d16325d9f9ed
thunderbird-debuginfo-68.6.0-1.el6_10.i686.rpm SHA-256: 3b896fbf754b39f3e66be508a627d5e993cc71f62aa1319c9b97d376a71afda7

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6

SRPM
thunderbird-68.6.0-1.el6_10.src.rpm SHA-256: ce0d5ea215de66301d921d17046c5b07b7ffcf19d97c77c6499bf719f7389b8e
x86_64
thunderbird-68.6.0-1.el6_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 30f208af8a64a75a9be34080a8327233aa76b2a522465faf05d0fd6c2f6d494d
thunderbird-debuginfo-68.6.0-1.el6_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: fede678ef6082e3ee7c48bd1907251d1ff2b98deb92c40921462d713e4e2b232
i386
thunderbird-68.6.0-1.el6_10.i686.rpm SHA-256: 15871e68c78a7d453a03cde42b59556aa96c5f025c0d4a43d2b7d16325d9f9ed
thunderbird-debuginfo-68.6.0-1.el6_10.i686.rpm SHA-256: 3b896fbf754b39f3e66be508a627d5e993cc71f62aa1319c9b97d376a71afda7

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6

SRPM
thunderbird-68.6.0-1.el6_10.src.rpm SHA-256: ce0d5ea215de66301d921d17046c5b07b7ffcf19d97c77c6499bf719f7389b8e
x86_64
thunderbird-68.6.0-1.el6_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 30f208af8a64a75a9be34080a8327233aa76b2a522465faf05d0fd6c2f6d494d
thunderbird-debuginfo-68.6.0-1.el6_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: fede678ef6082e3ee7c48bd1907251d1ff2b98deb92c40921462d713e4e2b232
i386
thunderbird-68.6.0-1.el6_10.i686.rpm SHA-256: 15871e68c78a7d453a03cde42b59556aa96c5f025c0d4a43d2b7d16325d9f9ed
thunderbird-debuginfo-68.6.0-1.el6_10.i686.rpm SHA-256: 3b896fbf754b39f3e66be508a627d5e993cc71f62aa1319c9b97d376a71afda7

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6

SRPM
thunderbird-68.6.0-1.el6_10.src.rpm SHA-256: ce0d5ea215de66301d921d17046c5b07b7ffcf19d97c77c6499bf719f7389b8e
x86_64
thunderbird-68.6.0-1.el6_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 30f208af8a64a75a9be34080a8327233aa76b2a522465faf05d0fd6c2f6d494d
thunderbird-debuginfo-68.6.0-1.el6_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: fede678ef6082e3ee7c48bd1907251d1ff2b98deb92c40921462d713e4e2b232
i386
thunderbird-68.6.0-1.el6_10.i686.rpm SHA-256: 15871e68c78a7d453a03cde42b59556aa96c5f025c0d4a43d2b7d16325d9f9ed
thunderbird-debuginfo-68.6.0-1.el6_10.i686.rpm SHA-256: 3b896fbf754b39f3e66be508a627d5e993cc71f62aa1319c9b97d376a71afda7

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6

SRPM
thunderbird-68.6.0-1.el6_10.src.rpm SHA-256: ce0d5ea215de66301d921d17046c5b07b7ffcf19d97c77c6499bf719f7389b8e
s390x
thunderbird-68.6.0-1.el6_10.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 155b3b31e612bc4a03222f074031dc864d33c70a44626b26e6656c2fbdede0ae
thunderbird-debuginfo-68.6.0-1.el6_10.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 118284f6e9607de68abc4456f25a66152260528f0ace1389a0ae7401c88eb99b

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6

SRPM
thunderbird-68.6.0-1.el6_10.src.rpm SHA-256: ce0d5ea215de66301d921d17046c5b07b7ffcf19d97c77c6499bf719f7389b8e
ppc64
thunderbird-68.6.0-1.el6_10.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: 7f19045dc396c65c239a81f219bcb046fd3285f614d907f585ead5b6d3e1be01
thunderbird-debuginfo-68.6.0-1.el6_10.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: 94c74b7b08ca3d76608009f70a16ba2d6a4b8890a3563ad56d06282912bb822e

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

SRPM
thunderbird-68.6.0-1.el6_10.src.rpm SHA-256: ce0d5ea215de66301d921d17046c5b07b7ffcf19d97c77c6499bf719f7389b8e
s390x
thunderbird-68.6.0-1.el6_10.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 155b3b31e612bc4a03222f074031dc864d33c70a44626b26e6656c2fbdede0ae
thunderbird-debuginfo-68.6.0-1.el6_10.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 118284f6e9607de68abc4456f25a66152260528f0ace1389a0ae7401c88eb99b

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

SRPM
thunderbird-68.6.0-1.el6_10.src.rpm SHA-256: ce0d5ea215de66301d921d17046c5b07b7ffcf19d97c77c6499bf719f7389b8e
x86_64
thunderbird-68.6.0-1.el6_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 30f208af8a64a75a9be34080a8327233aa76b2a522465faf05d0fd6c2f6d494d
thunderbird-debuginfo-68.6.0-1.el6_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: fede678ef6082e3ee7c48bd1907251d1ff2b98deb92c40921462d713e4e2b232
i386
thunderbird-68.6.0-1.el6_10.i686.rpm SHA-256: 15871e68c78a7d453a03cde42b59556aa96c5f025c0d4a43d2b7d16325d9f9ed
thunderbird-debuginfo-68.6.0-1.el6_10.i686.rpm SHA-256: 3b896fbf754b39f3e66be508a627d5e993cc71f62aa1319c9b97d376a71afda7

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

SRPM
thunderbird-68.6.0-1.el6_10.src.rpm SHA-256: ce0d5ea215de66301d921d17046c5b07b7ffcf19d97c77c6499bf719f7389b8e
s390x
thunderbird-68.6.0-1.el6_10.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 155b3b31e612bc4a03222f074031dc864d33c70a44626b26e6656c2fbdede0ae
thunderbird-debuginfo-68.6.0-1.el6_10.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 118284f6e9607de68abc4456f25a66152260528f0ace1389a0ae7401c88eb99b

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