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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2021:0160 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2021-01-18
Updated:
2021-01-18

RHSA-2021:0160 - Security Advisory

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Synopsis

Critical: thunderbird security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Critical

Red Hat Insights patch analysis

Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.

View affected systems

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 Critical. 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 78.6.1.

Security Fix(es):

  • Mozilla: Use-after-free write when handling a malicious COOKIE-ECHO SCTP chunk (CVE-2020-16044)

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 - 1913503 - CVE-2020-16044 Mozilla: Use-after-free write when handling a malicious COOKIE-ECHO SCTP chunk

CVEs

  • CVE-2020-16044

References

  • https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical
Note: More recent versions of these packages may be available. Click a package name for more details.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.1

SRPM
thunderbird-78.6.1-1.el8_1.src.rpm SHA-256: a9f84ff7fe9561d2cd0cc4ada4a75a9553666fe38d8fc7733a64aef0a5478ef2
x86_64
thunderbird-78.6.1-1.el8_1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: b7d554c6f02d307d6f0328366ca905e0632b53b8b2a9f67079809c406bc1414a
thunderbird-debuginfo-78.6.1-1.el8_1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 7ed59dd5704f2d4112e1edbf224a928632b12064fd47f5810ab37932f50877a3
thunderbird-debugsource-78.6.1-1.el8_1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 34d12f4f644157df19aed1582fb8736b48b54098d2a3c38da8ae23534298328a

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.1

SRPM
thunderbird-78.6.1-1.el8_1.src.rpm SHA-256: a9f84ff7fe9561d2cd0cc4ada4a75a9553666fe38d8fc7733a64aef0a5478ef2
ppc64le
thunderbird-78.6.1-1.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: b5e0d3febc120a376a4e3e4a2f606e044cb259a0c9afb5f7a942ce281b5078c6
thunderbird-debuginfo-78.6.1-1.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 65763035a8a1eb266ab1a8ac7038a0ce692861dc1109ea7256f2bc0353fc1afa
thunderbird-debugsource-78.6.1-1.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 536e7a1b75c9c008c5dc5c3da7b192b8d9d463bbe03c21e84c839bb9d384ce63

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1

SRPM
thunderbird-78.6.1-1.el8_1.src.rpm SHA-256: a9f84ff7fe9561d2cd0cc4ada4a75a9553666fe38d8fc7733a64aef0a5478ef2
ppc64le
thunderbird-78.6.1-1.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: b5e0d3febc120a376a4e3e4a2f606e044cb259a0c9afb5f7a942ce281b5078c6
thunderbird-debuginfo-78.6.1-1.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 65763035a8a1eb266ab1a8ac7038a0ce692861dc1109ea7256f2bc0353fc1afa
thunderbird-debugsource-78.6.1-1.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 536e7a1b75c9c008c5dc5c3da7b192b8d9d463bbe03c21e84c839bb9d384ce63

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1

SRPM
thunderbird-78.6.1-1.el8_1.src.rpm SHA-256: a9f84ff7fe9561d2cd0cc4ada4a75a9553666fe38d8fc7733a64aef0a5478ef2
x86_64
thunderbird-78.6.1-1.el8_1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: b7d554c6f02d307d6f0328366ca905e0632b53b8b2a9f67079809c406bc1414a
thunderbird-debuginfo-78.6.1-1.el8_1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 7ed59dd5704f2d4112e1edbf224a928632b12064fd47f5810ab37932f50877a3
thunderbird-debugsource-78.6.1-1.el8_1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 34d12f4f644157df19aed1582fb8736b48b54098d2a3c38da8ae23534298328a

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

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