RHSA-2024:1494 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of
Moderate. 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 115.9.0.

Security Fix(es):

• nss: timing attack against RSA decryption (CVE-2023-5388)
• Mozilla: Crash in NSS TLS method (CVE-2024-0743)
• Mozilla: Leaking of encrypted email subjects to other conversations (CVE-2024-1936)
• Mozilla: JIT code failed to save return registers on Armv7-A (CVE-2024-2607)
• Mozilla: Integer overflow could have led to out of bounds write

(CVE-2024-2608)

• Mozilla: Improper handling of html and body tags enabled CSP nonce leakage

(CVE-2024-2610)

• Mozilla: Clickjacking vulnerability could have led to a user accidentally

granting permissions (CVE-2024-2611)

• Mozilla: Self referencing object could have potentially led to a

use-after-free (CVE-2024-2612)

• Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 124, Firefox ESR 115.9, and

Thunderbird 115.9 (CVE-2024-2614)

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 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2243644 - CVE-2023-5388 nss: timing attack against RSA decryption
• BZ - 2260012 - CVE-2024-0743 Mozilla: Crash in NSS TLS method
• BZ - 2268171 - CVE-2024-1936 Mozilla: Leaking of encrypted email subjects to other conversations
• BZ - 2270660 - CVE-2024-2607 Mozilla: JIT code failed to save return registers on Armv7-A
• BZ - 2270661 - CVE-2024-2608 Mozilla: Integer overflow could have led to out of bounds write
• BZ - 2270663 - CVE-2024-2610 Mozilla: Improper handling of html and body tags enabled CSP nonce leakage
• BZ - 2270664 - CVE-2024-2611 Mozilla: Clickjacking vulnerability could have led to a user accidentally granting permissions
• BZ - 2270665 - CVE-2024-2612 Mozilla: Self referencing object could have potentially led to a use-after-free
• BZ - 2270666 - CVE-2024-2614 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 124, Firefox ESR 115.9, and Thunderbird 115.9

CVEs

• CVE-2023-5388
• CVE-2024-0743
• CVE-2024-1936
• CVE-2024-2607
• CVE-2024-2608
• CVE-2024-2610
• CVE-2024-2611
• CVE-2024-2612
• CVE-2024-2614

References

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