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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:5645 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2020-12-21
Updated:
2020-12-21

RHSA-2020:5645 - 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 78.6.0.

Security Fix(es):

  • chromium-browser: Uninitialized Use in V8 (CVE-2020-16042)
  • Mozilla: Stack overflow due to incorrect parsing of SMTP server response codes (CVE-2020-26970)
  • Mozilla: Heap buffer overflow in WebGL (CVE-2020-26971)
  • Mozilla: CSS Sanitizer performed incorrect sanitization (CVE-2020-26973)
  • Mozilla: Incorrect cast of StyleGenericFlexBasis resulted in a heap use-after-free (CVE-2020-26974)
  • Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 84 and Firefox ESR 78.6 (CVE-2020-35113)
  • Mozilla: Internal network hosts could have been probed by a malicious webpage (CVE-2020-26978)
  • Mozilla: The proxy.onRequest API did not catch view-source URLs (CVE-2020-35111)

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 - 1903443 - CVE-2020-26970 Mozilla: Stack overflow due to incorrect parsing of SMTP server response codes
  • BZ - 1904515 - CVE-2020-16042 chromium-browser: Uninitialized Use in V8
  • BZ - 1908022 - CVE-2020-26971 Mozilla: Heap buffer overflow in WebGL
  • BZ - 1908023 - CVE-2020-26973 Mozilla: CSS Sanitizer performed incorrect sanitization
  • BZ - 1908024 - CVE-2020-26974 Mozilla: Incorrect cast of StyleGenericFlexBasis resulted in a heap use-after-free
  • BZ - 1908025 - CVE-2020-26978 Mozilla: Internal network hosts could have been probed by a malicious webpage
  • BZ - 1908027 - CVE-2020-35111 Mozilla: The proxy.onRequest API did not catch view-source URLs
  • BZ - 1908029 - CVE-2020-35113 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 84 and Firefox ESR 78.6

CVEs

  • CVE-2020-16042
  • CVE-2020-26970
  • CVE-2020-26971
  • CVE-2020-26973
  • CVE-2020-26974
  • CVE-2020-26978
  • CVE-2020-35111
  • CVE-2020-35113

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-78.6.0-1.el8_0.src.rpm SHA-256: 31df1fed09aadfb80801f7bfea2e826615365db5795ad60c9034d4dc11b06351
ppc64le
thunderbird-78.6.0-1.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: d1f2f11f39cc70156a35f3e26eb1b1155398fe49ca129515646441e25068e58e
thunderbird-debuginfo-78.6.0-1.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 03014f406d2d6964907df0cd9d6984e18aa17e3be1468ee6a706a57695916baf
thunderbird-debugsource-78.6.0-1.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 617bb3806970f94fbb148824be045026e2aa7f04c23c60de7dc2f3d7ba681805

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

SRPM
thunderbird-78.6.0-1.el8_0.src.rpm SHA-256: 31df1fed09aadfb80801f7bfea2e826615365db5795ad60c9034d4dc11b06351
x86_64
thunderbird-78.6.0-1.el8_0.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 2b7085435d6a522e0cbd705f0a43be58a3ccfcd637828a61507e297835bf7ec5
thunderbird-debuginfo-78.6.0-1.el8_0.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 9f5f1793558399a04c48bc1cf1ace9d2d8a7fe0a681d0c11337d8033f6f471a9
thunderbird-debugsource-78.6.0-1.el8_0.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: a7fd112bad0b30dba905bd0e78657d7e8fb54c3badbaf719f9fe292250bd0586

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

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