- Issued:
- 2021-03-25
- Updated:
- 2021-03-25
RHSA-2021:0995 - Security Advisory
Synopsis
Important: thunderbird security update
Type/Severity
Security Advisory: Important
Red Hat Insights patch analysis
Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.
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 78.9.0.
Security Fix(es):
- Mozilla: Texture upload into an unbound backing buffer resulted in an out-of-bound read (CVE-2021-23981)
- Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 87 and Firefox ESR 78.9 (CVE-2021-23987)
- Mozilla: Internal network hosts could have been probed by a malicious webpage (CVE-2021-23982)
- Mozilla: Malicious extensions could have spoofed popup information (CVE-2021-23984)
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 - 1942783 - CVE-2021-23981 Mozilla: Texture upload into an unbound backing buffer resulted in an out-of-bound read
- BZ - 1942785 - CVE-2021-23982 Mozilla: Internal network hosts could have been probed by a malicious webpage
- BZ - 1942786 - CVE-2021-23984 Mozilla: Malicious extensions could have spoofed popup information
- BZ - 1942787 - CVE-2021-23987 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 87 and Firefox ESR 78.9
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.1
SRPM | |
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thunderbird-78.9.0-3.el8_1.src.rpm | SHA-256: 9e62ff500db9e1da1ea8f3d0070a7feeb4a07588a0674fcf458a9098c7325cc5 |
x86_64 | |
thunderbird-78.9.0-3.el8_1.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 9c91dfb64add0041211a6cb7b540f90bcaf27d6643e25071b0098216914aeca7 |
thunderbird-debuginfo-78.9.0-3.el8_1.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 6ff34929bf11fede642d30641e7552ab4898f1d75edd034a6f7ce3f219994b27 |
thunderbird-debugsource-78.9.0-3.el8_1.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: cb582302c88e1175439d8a3adb32773bff8a93b2d67b80c69ddbbf2db085e5f9 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.1
SRPM | |
---|---|
thunderbird-78.9.0-3.el8_1.src.rpm | SHA-256: 9e62ff500db9e1da1ea8f3d0070a7feeb4a07588a0674fcf458a9098c7325cc5 |
ppc64le | |
thunderbird-78.9.0-3.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm | SHA-256: 40c1e7ddb837b21b555e408417aca2535caf1fa12bcb0883fe31613b27a515c1 |
thunderbird-debuginfo-78.9.0-3.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm | SHA-256: 475d88de5a27e55a12abf264109249e4aa14ea9a7b605f82ff5b026577d87046 |
thunderbird-debugsource-78.9.0-3.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm | SHA-256: b8551fe6a887bfa2dfe422e498b2aa5c0810ceed8d6d93847158559e2f9cc48f |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1
SRPM | |
---|---|
thunderbird-78.9.0-3.el8_1.src.rpm | SHA-256: 9e62ff500db9e1da1ea8f3d0070a7feeb4a07588a0674fcf458a9098c7325cc5 |
ppc64le | |
thunderbird-78.9.0-3.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm | SHA-256: 40c1e7ddb837b21b555e408417aca2535caf1fa12bcb0883fe31613b27a515c1 |
thunderbird-debuginfo-78.9.0-3.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm | SHA-256: 475d88de5a27e55a12abf264109249e4aa14ea9a7b605f82ff5b026577d87046 |
thunderbird-debugsource-78.9.0-3.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm | SHA-256: b8551fe6a887bfa2dfe422e498b2aa5c0810ceed8d6d93847158559e2f9cc48f |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1
SRPM | |
---|---|
thunderbird-78.9.0-3.el8_1.src.rpm | SHA-256: 9e62ff500db9e1da1ea8f3d0070a7feeb4a07588a0674fcf458a9098c7325cc5 |
x86_64 | |
thunderbird-78.9.0-3.el8_1.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 9c91dfb64add0041211a6cb7b540f90bcaf27d6643e25071b0098216914aeca7 |
thunderbird-debuginfo-78.9.0-3.el8_1.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 6ff34929bf11fede642d30641e7552ab4898f1d75edd034a6f7ce3f219994b27 |
thunderbird-debugsource-78.9.0-3.el8_1.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: cb582302c88e1175439d8a3adb32773bff8a93b2d67b80c69ddbbf2db085e5f9 |
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