RHSA-2020:2611 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Extended Update Support.

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 68.9.0.

Security Fix(es):

• Mozilla: Security downgrade with IMAP STARTTLS leads to information leakage (CVE-2020-12398)
• Mozilla: Use-after-free in SharedWorkerService (CVE-2020-12405)
• Mozilla: JavaScript Type confusion with NativeTypes (CVE-2020-12406)
• Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 77 and Firefox ESR 68.9 (CVE-2020-12410)

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 for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.1 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.1 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1843030 - CVE-2020-12410 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 77 and Firefox ESR 68.9
• BZ - 1843312 - CVE-2020-12406 Mozilla: JavaScript Type confusion with NativeTypes
• BZ - 1843313 - CVE-2020-12405 Mozilla: Use-after-free in SharedWorkerService
• BZ - 1846556 - CVE-2020-12398 Mozilla: Security downgrade with IMAP STARTTLS leads to information leakage

CVEs

• CVE-2020-12398
• CVE-2020-12405
• CVE-2020-12406
• CVE-2020-12410

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important