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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2022:6169 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2022-08-24
Updated:
2022-08-24

RHSA-2022:6169 - 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 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 91.13.0.

Security Fix(es):

  • Mozilla: Address bar spoofing via XSLT error handling (CVE-2022-38472)
  • Mozilla: Cross-origin XSLT Documents would have inherited the parent's permissions (CVE-2022-38473)
  • Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 104 and Firefox ESR 102.2 (CVE-2022-38477)
  • Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 104, Firefox ESR 102.2, and Firefox ESR 91.13 (CVE-2022-38478)
  • Mozilla: Data race and potential use-after-free in PK11_ChangePW (CVE-2022-38476)

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 - 2120673 - CVE-2022-38472 Mozilla: Address bar spoofing via XSLT error handling
  • BZ - 2120674 - CVE-2022-38473 Mozilla: Cross-origin XSLT Documents would have inherited the parent's permissions
  • BZ - 2120678 - CVE-2022-38476 Mozilla: Data race and potential use-after-free in PK11_ChangePW
  • BZ - 2120695 - CVE-2022-38477 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 104 and Firefox ESR 102.2
  • BZ - 2120696 - CVE-2022-38478 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 104, Firefox ESR 102.2, and Firefox ESR 91.13

CVEs

  • CVE-2022-38472
  • CVE-2022-38473
  • CVE-2022-38476
  • CVE-2022-38477
  • CVE-2022-38478

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 Server 7

SRPM
thunderbird-91.13.0-1.el7_9.src.rpm SHA-256: cb333c76d4303a89a74bce9bad5586d4e452bf3fb65728e44c13b8021206b8c2
x86_64
thunderbird-91.13.0-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: e642b5aa4e25be71a116c22a3d5dfdfbdce77bce2d0422e5d7f5dca5b315cfa8
thunderbird-debuginfo-91.13.0-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 9aff1405823b9e2e7b951734b043aab5252e87c818f2e895c95f02c5b9d914d8

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 7

SRPM
thunderbird-91.13.0-1.el7_9.src.rpm SHA-256: cb333c76d4303a89a74bce9bad5586d4e452bf3fb65728e44c13b8021206b8c2
x86_64
thunderbird-91.13.0-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: e642b5aa4e25be71a116c22a3d5dfdfbdce77bce2d0422e5d7f5dca5b315cfa8
thunderbird-debuginfo-91.13.0-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 9aff1405823b9e2e7b951734b043aab5252e87c818f2e895c95f02c5b9d914d8

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7

SRPM
thunderbird-91.13.0-1.el7_9.src.rpm SHA-256: cb333c76d4303a89a74bce9bad5586d4e452bf3fb65728e44c13b8021206b8c2
x86_64
thunderbird-91.13.0-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: e642b5aa4e25be71a116c22a3d5dfdfbdce77bce2d0422e5d7f5dca5b315cfa8
thunderbird-debuginfo-91.13.0-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 9aff1405823b9e2e7b951734b043aab5252e87c818f2e895c95f02c5b9d914d8

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7

SRPM
thunderbird-91.13.0-1.el7_9.src.rpm SHA-256: cb333c76d4303a89a74bce9bad5586d4e452bf3fb65728e44c13b8021206b8c2
x86_64
thunderbird-91.13.0-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: e642b5aa4e25be71a116c22a3d5dfdfbdce77bce2d0422e5d7f5dca5b315cfa8
thunderbird-debuginfo-91.13.0-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 9aff1405823b9e2e7b951734b043aab5252e87c818f2e895c95f02c5b9d914d8

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7

SRPM
thunderbird-91.13.0-1.el7_9.src.rpm SHA-256: cb333c76d4303a89a74bce9bad5586d4e452bf3fb65728e44c13b8021206b8c2
ppc64le
thunderbird-91.13.0-1.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: f29e31d0b5c0057404aa6700a05b83fd3e003f927b7d27207cb28cadd74c7fd4
thunderbird-debuginfo-91.13.0-1.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 57c1c6762d8ed96e68cc31f1278d3fe93eca92e32205d097fb815ff189661789

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian 7

SRPM
thunderbird-91.13.0-1.el7_9.src.rpm SHA-256: cb333c76d4303a89a74bce9bad5586d4e452bf3fb65728e44c13b8021206b8c2
ppc64le
thunderbird-91.13.0-1.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: f29e31d0b5c0057404aa6700a05b83fd3e003f927b7d27207cb28cadd74c7fd4
thunderbird-debuginfo-91.13.0-1.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 57c1c6762d8ed96e68cc31f1278d3fe93eca92e32205d097fb815ff189661789

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