RHSA-2022:1302 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

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 91.8.0.

Security Fix(es):

• Mozilla: Use-after-free in NSSToken objects (CVE-2022-1097)
• Mozilla: Out of bounds write due to unexpected WebAuthN Extensions (CVE-2022-28281)
• Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 99 and Firefox ESR 91.8 (CVE-2022-28289)
• Mozilla: Use-after-free after VR Process destruction (CVE-2022-1196)
• Mozilla: OpenPGP revocation information was ignored (CVE-2022-1197)
• Mozilla: Use-after-free in DocumentL10n::TranslateDocument (CVE-2022-28282)
• Mozilla: Incorrect AliasSet used in JIT Codegen (CVE-2022-28285)
• Mozilla: Denial of Service via complex regular expressions (CVE-2022-24713)
• Mozilla: iframe contents could be rendered outside the border (CVE-2022-28286)

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 Server 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 2072559 - CVE-2022-1097 Mozilla: Use-after-free in NSSToken objects
• BZ - 2072560 - CVE-2022-28281 Mozilla: Out of bounds write due to unexpected WebAuthN Extensions
• BZ - 2072561 - CVE-2022-1196 Mozilla: Use-after-free after VR Process destruction
• BZ - 2072562 - CVE-2022-28282 Mozilla: Use-after-free in DocumentL10n::TranslateDocument
• BZ - 2072563 - CVE-2022-28285 Mozilla: Incorrect AliasSet used in JIT Codegen
• BZ - 2072564 - CVE-2022-28286 Mozilla: iframe contents could be rendered outside the border
• BZ - 2072565 - CVE-2022-24713 Mozilla: Denial of Service via complex regular expressions
• BZ - 2072566 - CVE-2022-28289 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 99 and Firefox ESR 91.8
• BZ - 2072963 - CVE-2022-1197 Mozilla: OpenPGP revocation information was ignored

CVEs

• CVE-2022-1097
• CVE-2022-1196
• CVE-2022-1197
• CVE-2022-24713
• CVE-2022-28281
• CVE-2022-28282
• CVE-2022-28285
• CVE-2022-28286
• CVE-2022-28289

References

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