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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2021:0658 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2021-02-24
Updated:
2021-02-24

RHSA-2021:0658 - 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 8.1 Extended Update Support.

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 78.8.0.

Security Fix(es):

  • Mozilla: Content Security Policy violation report could have contained the destination of a redirect (CVE-2021-23968)
  • Mozilla: Content Security Policy violation report could have contained the destination of a redirect (CVE-2021-23969)
  • Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 86 and Firefox ESR 78.8 (CVE-2021-23978)
  • Mozilla: MediaError message property could have leaked information about cross-origin resources (CVE-2021-23973)

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 - 1932109 - CVE-2021-23969 Mozilla: Content Security Policy violation report could have contained the destination of a redirect
  • BZ - 1932110 - CVE-2021-23968 Mozilla: Content Security Policy violation report could have contained the destination of a redirect
  • BZ - 1932111 - CVE-2021-23973 Mozilla: MediaError message property could have leaked information about cross-origin resources
  • BZ - 1932112 - CVE-2021-23978 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 86 and Firefox ESR 78.8

CVEs

  • CVE-2021-23968
  • CVE-2021-23969
  • CVE-2021-23973
  • CVE-2021-23978

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 for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.1

SRPM
thunderbird-78.8.0-1.el8_1.src.rpm SHA-256: 661af895a7fea1e9222d30520de86eb9717d7c664e638c1d2583f39fb5aa1d97
x86_64
thunderbird-78.8.0-1.el8_1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: d3101da02fa2792ffaec5ea9e21eef63589e74713ed0aa9ad63cd9ce0c6bfd0c
thunderbird-debuginfo-78.8.0-1.el8_1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: f3f3091c9dd5d063adc305cc4b8cdd0b173ba24e061be336f96219116b55fbd5
thunderbird-debugsource-78.8.0-1.el8_1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 24932c7a388ff97c68151d2fb0d802f464bc348ff8208cbaec96ad72394e4a27

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

SRPM
thunderbird-78.8.0-1.el8_1.src.rpm SHA-256: 661af895a7fea1e9222d30520de86eb9717d7c664e638c1d2583f39fb5aa1d97
ppc64le
thunderbird-78.8.0-1.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: a81bd6c5037049f4244c9da11b342f8b3efe5ddc796144c5b5639f9217b8d870
thunderbird-debuginfo-78.8.0-1.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: d9332e2b4d23c8f66fed5e16ec5a93693e1dbea6aec349c956705a3673f467ef
thunderbird-debugsource-78.8.0-1.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 3467899a2743bf2df198518d4fc87a61872a14dc3b7a0c3d74746ec9e8df877f

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

SRPM
thunderbird-78.8.0-1.el8_1.src.rpm SHA-256: 661af895a7fea1e9222d30520de86eb9717d7c664e638c1d2583f39fb5aa1d97
ppc64le
thunderbird-78.8.0-1.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: a81bd6c5037049f4244c9da11b342f8b3efe5ddc796144c5b5639f9217b8d870
thunderbird-debuginfo-78.8.0-1.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: d9332e2b4d23c8f66fed5e16ec5a93693e1dbea6aec349c956705a3673f467ef
thunderbird-debugsource-78.8.0-1.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 3467899a2743bf2df198518d4fc87a61872a14dc3b7a0c3d74746ec9e8df877f

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

SRPM
thunderbird-78.8.0-1.el8_1.src.rpm SHA-256: 661af895a7fea1e9222d30520de86eb9717d7c664e638c1d2583f39fb5aa1d97
x86_64
thunderbird-78.8.0-1.el8_1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: d3101da02fa2792ffaec5ea9e21eef63589e74713ed0aa9ad63cd9ce0c6bfd0c
thunderbird-debuginfo-78.8.0-1.el8_1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: f3f3091c9dd5d063adc305cc4b8cdd0b173ba24e061be336f96219116b55fbd5
thunderbird-debugsource-78.8.0-1.el8_1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 24932c7a388ff97c68151d2fb0d802f464bc348ff8208cbaec96ad72394e4a27

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

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