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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:0918 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2020-03-23
Updated:
2020-03-23

RHSA-2020:0918 - 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.

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Topic

An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions.

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 for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.0 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.0 x86_64

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 for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.0

SRPM
thunderbird-68.6.0-1.el8_0.src.rpm SHA-256: 14500413ae00bad59ae46ece18ea2525d1e07e32364f1baa8b9a0adc6b9229bd
ppc64le
thunderbird-68.6.0-1.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: bd886340a776b51b48eac00c2264984d6984552be5db909a3514a5a50efc6a50
thunderbird-debuginfo-68.6.0-1.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: ad71e1c0e820d3f3ad7d8b98d6e16f57ddf0c357d643e3c8a14190903dcefce2
thunderbird-debugsource-68.6.0-1.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: d6ef58e6b538a3eeaf75ad3ab8a96a357e979b66f2a3b8e51c3b02c7dd60d65f

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.0

SRPM
thunderbird-68.6.0-1.el8_0.src.rpm SHA-256: 14500413ae00bad59ae46ece18ea2525d1e07e32364f1baa8b9a0adc6b9229bd
x86_64
thunderbird-68.6.0-1.el8_0.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: a5c98a18e7e907c77ab0a77b7b705d3b788625ec459e142db1e80c71147c089c
thunderbird-debuginfo-68.6.0-1.el8_0.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 4c548296a13af78879cf57a43dc152a8661795ee753f2b7c34b554f43e2b2329
thunderbird-debugsource-68.6.0-1.el8_0.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: f094dd9e015817754af32c8f3b87de812bec0f89b4414583fcf4efaf486ee664

The Red Hat security contact is secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.

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