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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:4909 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2020-11-04
Updated:
2020-11-04

RHSA-2020:4909 - Security Advisory

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Synopsis

Important: thunderbird security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Red Hat Lightspeed 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 78.4.0.

Security Fix(es):

  • Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 82 and Firefox ESR 78.4 (CVE-2020-15683)
  • chromium-browser: Use after free in WebRTC (CVE-2020-15969)

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 - 1885885 - CVE-2020-15969 chromium-browser: Use after free in WebRTC
  • BZ - 1889932 - CVE-2020-15683 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 82 and Firefox ESR 78.4

CVEs

  • CVE-2020-15683
  • CVE-2020-15969

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 7

SRPM
thunderbird-78.4.0-1.el7_9.src.rpm SHA-256: 31a49d7e46d65b7437dd3ab889e6e7a6e53c889d18145c35f062f217788f1b7e
x86_64
thunderbird-78.4.0-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 8a89099a220d5ec224603e08f1007f7fa53bf58c1eb4c01ee43cd8d71e750806
thunderbird-debuginfo-78.4.0-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: e26a04cde87014f0eb358745de7e35987fb284e184fbed316227351335e723aa

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 7

SRPM
thunderbird-78.4.0-1.el7_9.src.rpm SHA-256: 31a49d7e46d65b7437dd3ab889e6e7a6e53c889d18145c35f062f217788f1b7e
x86_64
thunderbird-78.4.0-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 8a89099a220d5ec224603e08f1007f7fa53bf58c1eb4c01ee43cd8d71e750806
thunderbird-debuginfo-78.4.0-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: e26a04cde87014f0eb358745de7e35987fb284e184fbed316227351335e723aa

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7

SRPM
thunderbird-78.4.0-1.el7_9.src.rpm SHA-256: 31a49d7e46d65b7437dd3ab889e6e7a6e53c889d18145c35f062f217788f1b7e
x86_64
thunderbird-78.4.0-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 8a89099a220d5ec224603e08f1007f7fa53bf58c1eb4c01ee43cd8d71e750806
thunderbird-debuginfo-78.4.0-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: e26a04cde87014f0eb358745de7e35987fb284e184fbed316227351335e723aa

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7

SRPM
thunderbird-78.4.0-1.el7_9.src.rpm SHA-256: 31a49d7e46d65b7437dd3ab889e6e7a6e53c889d18145c35f062f217788f1b7e
x86_64
thunderbird-78.4.0-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 8a89099a220d5ec224603e08f1007f7fa53bf58c1eb4c01ee43cd8d71e750806
thunderbird-debuginfo-78.4.0-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: e26a04cde87014f0eb358745de7e35987fb284e184fbed316227351335e723aa

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7

SRPM
thunderbird-78.4.0-1.el7_9.src.rpm SHA-256: 31a49d7e46d65b7437dd3ab889e6e7a6e53c889d18145c35f062f217788f1b7e
ppc64le
thunderbird-78.4.0-1.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: e380d75c3f5cf8043ac6e918561526dc7e5d679ecaeadd5bbc6b5bbcb089eea8
thunderbird-debuginfo-78.4.0-1.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 46a35c191506103a103d94d9b3a3bf675f3c7ca60787c1d767007b5430144430

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

SRPM
thunderbird-78.4.0-1.el7_9.src.rpm SHA-256: 31a49d7e46d65b7437dd3ab889e6e7a6e53c889d18145c35f062f217788f1b7e
ppc64le
thunderbird-78.4.0-1.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: e380d75c3f5cf8043ac6e918561526dc7e5d679ecaeadd5bbc6b5bbcb089eea8
thunderbird-debuginfo-78.4.0-1.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 46a35c191506103a103d94d9b3a3bf675f3c7ca60787c1d767007b5430144430

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

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