RHSA-2021:0298 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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 78.7.0.

Security Fix(es):

• Mozilla: Cross-origin information leakage via redirected PDF requests (CVE-2021-23953)
• Mozilla: Type confusion when using logical assignment operators in JavaScript switch statements (CVE-2021-23954)
• Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 85 and Firefox ESR 78.7 (CVE-2021-23964)
• Mozilla: IMAP Response Injection when using STARTTLS (CVE-2020-15685)
• Mozilla: HTTPS pages could have been intercepted by a registered service worker when they should not have been (CVE-2020-26976)
• Mozilla: Use-after-poison for incorrectly redeclared JavaScript variables during GC (CVE-2021-23960)

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 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support Extension 8.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support Extension 8.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support Extension 8.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.6 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.4 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.4 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1920646 - CVE-2021-23953 Mozilla: Cross-origin information leakage via redirected PDF requests
• BZ - 1920648 - CVE-2021-23954 Mozilla: Type confusion when using logical assignment operators in JavaScript switch statements
• BZ - 1920649 - CVE-2020-26976 Mozilla: HTTPS pages could have been intercepted by a registered service worker when they should not have been
• BZ - 1920650 - CVE-2021-23960 Mozilla: Use-after-poison for incorrectly redeclared JavaScript variables during GC
• BZ - 1920651 - CVE-2021-23964 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 85 and Firefox ESR 78.7
• BZ - 1921543 - CVE-2020-15685 Mozilla: IMAP Response Injection when using STARTTLS

CVEs

• CVE-2020-15685
• CVE-2020-26976
• CVE-2021-23953
• CVE-2021-23954
• CVE-2021-23960
• CVE-2021-23964

References

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