RHSA-2024:0961 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 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 115.8.0.

Security Fix(es):

• Mozilla: Out-of-bounds memory read in networking channels (CVE-2024-1546)
• Mozilla: Alert dialog could have been spoofed on another site (CVE-2024-1547)
• Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 123, Firefox ESR 115.8, and Thunderbird 115.8 (CVE-2024-1553)
• Mozilla: Fullscreen Notification could have been hidden by select element (CVE-2024-1548)
• Mozilla: Custom cursor could obscure the permission dialog (CVE-2024-1549)
• Mozilla: Mouse cursor re-positioned unexpectedly could have led to unintended permission grants (CVE-2024-1550)
• Mozilla: Multipart HTTP Responses would accept the Set-Cookie header in response parts (CVE-2024-1551)
• Mozilla: Incorrect code generation on 32-bit ARM devices (CVE-2024-1552)

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 Extension 8.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.8 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2265349 - CVE-2024-1546 Mozilla: Out-of-bounds memory read in networking channels
• BZ - 2265350 - CVE-2024-1547 Mozilla: Alert dialog could have been spoofed on another site
• BZ - 2265351 - CVE-2024-1548 Mozilla: Fullscreen Notification could have been hidden by select element
• BZ - 2265352 - CVE-2024-1549 Mozilla: Custom cursor could obscure the permission dialog
• BZ - 2265353 - CVE-2024-1550 Mozilla: Mouse cursor re-positioned unexpectedly could have led to unintended permission grants
• BZ - 2265354 - CVE-2024-1551 Mozilla: Multipart HTTP Responses would accept the Set-Cookie header in response parts
• BZ - 2265355 - CVE-2024-1552 Mozilla: Incorrect code generation on 32-bit ARM devices
• BZ - 2265356 - CVE-2024-1553 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 123, Firefox ESR 115.8, and Thunderbird 115.8

CVEs

• CVE-2024-1546
• CVE-2024-1547
• CVE-2024-1548
• CVE-2024-1549
• CVE-2024-1550
• CVE-2024-1551
• CVE-2024-1552
• CVE-2024-1553

References

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