RHSA-2023:1804 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 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 102.10.0.

Security Fix(es):

• Thunderbird: Revocation status of S/Mime recipient certificates was not checked (CVE-2023-0547)
• Mozilla: Matrix SDK bundled with Thunderbird vulnerable to denial-of-service attack (CVE-2023-28427)
• Mozilla: Fullscreen notification obscured (CVE-2023-29533)
• Mozilla: Potential Memory Corruption following Garbage Collector compaction (CVE-2023-29535)
• Mozilla: Invalid free from JavaScript code (CVE-2023-29536)
• Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 112 and Firefox ESR 102.10 (CVE-2023-29550)
• Mozilla: Memory Corruption in Safe Browsing Code (CVE-2023-1945)
• Thunderbird: Hang when processing certain OpenPGP messages (CVE-2023-29479)
• Mozilla: Content-Disposition filename truncation leads to Reflected File Download (CVE-2023-29539)
• Mozilla: Files with malicious extensions could have been downloaded unsafely on Linux (CVE-2023-29541)
• Mozilla: Incorrect optimization result on ARM64 (CVE-2023-29548)
• MFSA-TMP-2023-0001 Mozilla: Double-free in libwebp (BZ#2186102)

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 8.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.4 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.4 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.4 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2183278 - CVE-2023-28427 Mozilla: Matrix SDK bundled with Thunderbird vulnerable to denial-of-service attack
• BZ - 2186101 - CVE-2023-29533 Mozilla: Fullscreen notification obscured
• BZ - 2186102 - MFSA-TMP-2023-0001 Mozilla: Double-free in libwebp
• BZ - 2186103 - CVE-2023-29535 Mozilla: Potential Memory Corruption following Garbage Collector compaction
• BZ - 2186104 - CVE-2023-29536 Mozilla: Invalid free from JavaScript code
• BZ - 2186105 - CVE-2023-29539 Mozilla: Content-Disposition filename truncation leads to Reflected File Download
• BZ - 2186106 - CVE-2023-29541 Mozilla: Files with malicious extensions could have been downloaded unsafely on Linux
• BZ - 2186109 - CVE-2023-1945 Mozilla: Memory Corruption in Safe Browsing Code
• BZ - 2186110 - CVE-2023-29548 Mozilla: Incorrect optimization result on ARM64
• BZ - 2186111 - CVE-2023-29550 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 112 and Firefox ESR 102.10
• BZ - 2186734 - CVE-2023-0547 Thunderbird: Revocation status of S/Mime recipient certificates was not checked
• BZ - 2186735 - CVE-2023-29479 Thunderbird: Hang when processing certain OpenPGP messages

CVEs

• CVE-2023-0547
• CVE-2023-1945
• CVE-2023-1999
• CVE-2023-28427
• CVE-2023-29479
• CVE-2023-29533
• CVE-2023-29535
• CVE-2023-29536
• CVE-2023-29539
• CVE-2023-29541
• CVE-2023-29548
• CVE-2023-29550

References

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