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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2021:2914 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2021-07-27
Updated:
2021-07-27

RHSA-2021:2914 - Security Advisory

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Synopsis

Important: thunderbird security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Red Hat Insights patch analysis

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Topic

An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 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 78.12.0.

Security Fix(es):

  • Mozilla: IMAP server responses sent by a MITM prior to STARTTLS could be processed (CVE-2021-29969)
  • Mozilla: Use-after-free in accessibility features of a document (CVE-2021-29970)
  • Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 90 and Firefox ESR 78.12 (CVE-2021-29976)
  • chromium-browser: Out of bounds write in ANGLE (CVE-2021-30547)

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 8.2 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.2 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.2 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.2 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.2 aarch64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.2 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.2 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 1970109 - CVE-2021-30547 chromium-browser: Out of bounds write in ANGLE
  • BZ - 1982013 - CVE-2021-29970 Mozilla: Use-after-free in accessibility features of a document
  • BZ - 1982014 - CVE-2021-29976 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 90 and Firefox ESR 78.12
  • BZ - 1982015 - CVE-2021-29969 Mozilla: IMAP server responses sent by a MITM prior to STARTTLS could be processed

CVEs

  • CVE-2021-29969
  • CVE-2021-29970
  • CVE-2021-29976
  • CVE-2021-30547

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 8.2

SRPM
thunderbird-78.12.0-2.el8_2.src.rpm SHA-256: 2056404fcf1fe800a6ba03413cfb8fb0770e80123999e2b372c30eb246942496
x86_64
thunderbird-78.12.0-2.el8_2.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 5c9a5de98ac113c73c998d81a834b6d71c33c752062081bf8881521fdf0b4423
thunderbird-debuginfo-78.12.0-2.el8_2.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 6ed2b9fbe5c77540827d7cae371a970411fe11da21be19696df2903463c85ac4
thunderbird-debugsource-78.12.0-2.el8_2.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 4f94bae5acad1e1258741a1a5d5eb9703563c951ec8f53eaaf455c9a2f13e2ff

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.2

SRPM
thunderbird-78.12.0-2.el8_2.src.rpm SHA-256: 2056404fcf1fe800a6ba03413cfb8fb0770e80123999e2b372c30eb246942496
x86_64
thunderbird-78.12.0-2.el8_2.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 5c9a5de98ac113c73c998d81a834b6d71c33c752062081bf8881521fdf0b4423
thunderbird-debuginfo-78.12.0-2.el8_2.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 6ed2b9fbe5c77540827d7cae371a970411fe11da21be19696df2903463c85ac4
thunderbird-debugsource-78.12.0-2.el8_2.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 4f94bae5acad1e1258741a1a5d5eb9703563c951ec8f53eaaf455c9a2f13e2ff

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.2

SRPM
thunderbird-78.12.0-2.el8_2.src.rpm SHA-256: 2056404fcf1fe800a6ba03413cfb8fb0770e80123999e2b372c30eb246942496
ppc64le
thunderbird-78.12.0-2.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 7b41b9bb7429cdaaf641192bc37671b7466580dd37138dd0b726bf372130b7f9
thunderbird-debuginfo-78.12.0-2.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 32dab67be7285cd820f6b52cb54f88b3779e92174447e22eeb2d5c7e904f5d6e
thunderbird-debugsource-78.12.0-2.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: b101e953a95c5f23ba0e6ce36243f3fa4d03ab4b1e1232c094fdd26c65070e56

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.2

SRPM
thunderbird-78.12.0-2.el8_2.src.rpm SHA-256: 2056404fcf1fe800a6ba03413cfb8fb0770e80123999e2b372c30eb246942496
x86_64
thunderbird-78.12.0-2.el8_2.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 5c9a5de98ac113c73c998d81a834b6d71c33c752062081bf8881521fdf0b4423
thunderbird-debuginfo-78.12.0-2.el8_2.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 6ed2b9fbe5c77540827d7cae371a970411fe11da21be19696df2903463c85ac4
thunderbird-debugsource-78.12.0-2.el8_2.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 4f94bae5acad1e1258741a1a5d5eb9703563c951ec8f53eaaf455c9a2f13e2ff

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.2

SRPM
thunderbird-78.12.0-2.el8_2.src.rpm SHA-256: 2056404fcf1fe800a6ba03413cfb8fb0770e80123999e2b372c30eb246942496
aarch64
thunderbird-78.12.0-2.el8_2.aarch64.rpm SHA-256: 5dfa12ae9e9a2f1c20044a66a982e881a306ae2144ef44fc6e6595f9f9f18d82
thunderbird-debuginfo-78.12.0-2.el8_2.aarch64.rpm SHA-256: b79d0e56728714613a2f2515046fa0bd532eb60df9c734b5f0f655c514d1672d
thunderbird-debugsource-78.12.0-2.el8_2.aarch64.rpm SHA-256: 4cdb3bf08ea4bbdee071e93a29977069940141af5b74ed815dd3af404bf0d555

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.2

SRPM
thunderbird-78.12.0-2.el8_2.src.rpm SHA-256: 2056404fcf1fe800a6ba03413cfb8fb0770e80123999e2b372c30eb246942496
ppc64le
thunderbird-78.12.0-2.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 7b41b9bb7429cdaaf641192bc37671b7466580dd37138dd0b726bf372130b7f9
thunderbird-debuginfo-78.12.0-2.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 32dab67be7285cd820f6b52cb54f88b3779e92174447e22eeb2d5c7e904f5d6e
thunderbird-debugsource-78.12.0-2.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: b101e953a95c5f23ba0e6ce36243f3fa4d03ab4b1e1232c094fdd26c65070e56

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.2

SRPM
thunderbird-78.12.0-2.el8_2.src.rpm SHA-256: 2056404fcf1fe800a6ba03413cfb8fb0770e80123999e2b372c30eb246942496
x86_64
thunderbird-78.12.0-2.el8_2.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 5c9a5de98ac113c73c998d81a834b6d71c33c752062081bf8881521fdf0b4423
thunderbird-debuginfo-78.12.0-2.el8_2.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 6ed2b9fbe5c77540827d7cae371a970411fe11da21be19696df2903463c85ac4
thunderbird-debugsource-78.12.0-2.el8_2.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 4f94bae5acad1e1258741a1a5d5eb9703563c951ec8f53eaaf455c9a2f13e2ff

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

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