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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:2906 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2020-07-14
Updated:
2020-07-14

RHSA-2020:2906 - 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 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 68.10.0.

Security Fix(es):

  • Mozilla: Memory corruption due to missing sign-extension for ValueTags on ARM64 (CVE-2020-12417)
  • Mozilla: Information disclosure due to manipulated URL object (CVE-2020-12418)
  • Mozilla: Use-after-free in nsGlobalWindowInner (CVE-2020-12419)
  • Mozilla: Use-After-Free when trying to connect to a STUN server (CVE-2020-12420)
  • Mozilla: Add-On updates did not respect the same certificate trust rules as software updates (CVE-2020-12421)

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 Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 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 Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

  • BZ - 1853014 - CVE-2020-12417 Mozilla: Memory corruption due to missing sign-extension for ValueTags on ARM64
  • BZ - 1853015 - CVE-2020-12418 Mozilla: Information disclosure due to manipulated URL object
  • BZ - 1853016 - CVE-2020-12419 Mozilla: Use-after-free in nsGlobalWindowInner
  • BZ - 1853017 - CVE-2020-12420 Mozilla: Use-After-Free when trying to connect to a STUN server
  • BZ - 1853018 - CVE-2020-12421 Mozilla: Add-On updates did not respect the same certificate trust rules as software updates

CVEs

  • CVE-2020-12417
  • CVE-2020-12418
  • CVE-2020-12419
  • CVE-2020-12420
  • CVE-2020-12421
  • CVE-2020-15646

References

  • https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
  • https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2020-26/
Note: More recent versions of these packages may be available. Click a package name for more details.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7

SRPM
thunderbird-68.10.0-1.el7_8.src.rpm SHA-256: 03a401755e36ea8dd2006c9c73790749e8a48bbfa7b8c0246ab35fb488e5b71a
x86_64
thunderbird-68.10.0-1.el7_8.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 4702c86bc3ec50d23ab7cd54dbd77e129d511b8e37c6555259c4a8b67d5f5fe0
thunderbird-debuginfo-68.10.0-1.el7_8.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: c8e0ab48844aeecabda44460ebd5bb158bdec62c82dcd6d9cdc07ec2527ab643

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 7

SRPM
thunderbird-68.10.0-1.el7_8.src.rpm SHA-256: 03a401755e36ea8dd2006c9c73790749e8a48bbfa7b8c0246ab35fb488e5b71a
x86_64
thunderbird-68.10.0-1.el7_8.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 4702c86bc3ec50d23ab7cd54dbd77e129d511b8e37c6555259c4a8b67d5f5fe0
thunderbird-debuginfo-68.10.0-1.el7_8.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: c8e0ab48844aeecabda44460ebd5bb158bdec62c82dcd6d9cdc07ec2527ab643

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7

SRPM
thunderbird-68.10.0-1.el7_8.src.rpm SHA-256: 03a401755e36ea8dd2006c9c73790749e8a48bbfa7b8c0246ab35fb488e5b71a
x86_64
thunderbird-68.10.0-1.el7_8.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 4702c86bc3ec50d23ab7cd54dbd77e129d511b8e37c6555259c4a8b67d5f5fe0
thunderbird-debuginfo-68.10.0-1.el7_8.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: c8e0ab48844aeecabda44460ebd5bb158bdec62c82dcd6d9cdc07ec2527ab643

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7

SRPM
thunderbird-68.10.0-1.el7_8.src.rpm SHA-256: 03a401755e36ea8dd2006c9c73790749e8a48bbfa7b8c0246ab35fb488e5b71a
x86_64
thunderbird-68.10.0-1.el7_8.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 4702c86bc3ec50d23ab7cd54dbd77e129d511b8e37c6555259c4a8b67d5f5fe0
thunderbird-debuginfo-68.10.0-1.el7_8.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: c8e0ab48844aeecabda44460ebd5bb158bdec62c82dcd6d9cdc07ec2527ab643

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7

SRPM
thunderbird-68.10.0-1.el7_8.src.rpm SHA-256: 03a401755e36ea8dd2006c9c73790749e8a48bbfa7b8c0246ab35fb488e5b71a
ppc64le
thunderbird-68.10.0-1.el7_8.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 13c0667cf2caa69e05f8b3f29299520a812f39ec1662495c5111a0ae819d6559
thunderbird-debuginfo-68.10.0-1.el7_8.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 2036db9066aaab1d9dff108accb7aa6454d8d6fc68a41e60c95261efa39bf4f5

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian 7

SRPM
thunderbird-68.10.0-1.el7_8.src.rpm SHA-256: 03a401755e36ea8dd2006c9c73790749e8a48bbfa7b8c0246ab35fb488e5b71a
ppc64le
thunderbird-68.10.0-1.el7_8.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 13c0667cf2caa69e05f8b3f29299520a812f39ec1662495c5111a0ae819d6559
thunderbird-debuginfo-68.10.0-1.el7_8.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 2036db9066aaab1d9dff108accb7aa6454d8d6fc68a41e60c95261efa39bf4f5

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