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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2024:4016 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2024-06-20
Updated:
2024-06-20

RHSA-2024:4016 - 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.

View affected systems

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 115.12.1.

Security Fix(es):

  • thunderbird: Use-after-free in networking (CVE-2024-5702)
  • thunderbird: Use-after-free in JavaScript object transplant (CVE-2024-5688)
  • thunderbird: External protocol handlers leaked by timing attack (CVE-2024-5690)
  • thunderbird: Sandboxed iframes were able to bypass sandbox restrictions to open a new window (CVE-2024-5691)
  • thunderbird: Cross-Origin Image leak via Offscreen Canvas (CVE-2024-5693)
  • thunderbird: Memory Corruption in Text Fragments (CVE-2024-5696)
  • thunderbird: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 127, Firefox ESR 115.12, and Thunderbird 115.12 (CVE-2024-5700)

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, 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 - 2291394 - CVE-2024-5702 Mozilla: Use-after-free in networking
  • BZ - 2291395 - CVE-2024-5688 Mozilla: Use-after-free in JavaScript object transplant
  • BZ - 2291396 - CVE-2024-5690 Mozilla: External protocol handlers leaked by timing attack
  • BZ - 2291397 - CVE-2024-5691 Mozilla: Sandboxed iframes were able to bypass sandbox restrictions to open a new window
  • BZ - 2291399 - CVE-2024-5693 Mozilla: Cross-Origin Image leak via Offscreen Canvas
  • BZ - 2291400 - CVE-2024-5696 Mozilla: Memory Corruption in Text Fragments
  • BZ - 2291401 - CVE-2024-5700 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 127, Firefox ESR 115.12, and Thunderbird 115.12

CVEs

  • CVE-2024-5688
  • CVE-2024-5690
  • CVE-2024-5691
  • CVE-2024-5693
  • CVE-2024-5696
  • CVE-2024-5700
  • CVE-2024-5702

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-115.12.1-1.el7_9.src.rpm SHA-256: 9ccdc5e5f139039d08092d7fc5295eda901ead315e4554fac10b7fb25eac43cf
x86_64
thunderbird-115.12.1-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 67ba30d60a6f6f8a67469749bf12b748cc6a7d60a6e87d10b204a736c87d7f5c
thunderbird-debuginfo-115.12.1-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 6ef2402f40aaabf992ad19da30c25707a9b3eb0379f06febaf78fb5524c098a6

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 7

SRPM
thunderbird-115.12.1-1.el7_9.src.rpm SHA-256: 9ccdc5e5f139039d08092d7fc5295eda901ead315e4554fac10b7fb25eac43cf
x86_64
thunderbird-115.12.1-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 67ba30d60a6f6f8a67469749bf12b748cc6a7d60a6e87d10b204a736c87d7f5c
thunderbird-debuginfo-115.12.1-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 6ef2402f40aaabf992ad19da30c25707a9b3eb0379f06febaf78fb5524c098a6

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7

SRPM
thunderbird-115.12.1-1.el7_9.src.rpm SHA-256: 9ccdc5e5f139039d08092d7fc5295eda901ead315e4554fac10b7fb25eac43cf
x86_64
thunderbird-115.12.1-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 67ba30d60a6f6f8a67469749bf12b748cc6a7d60a6e87d10b204a736c87d7f5c
thunderbird-debuginfo-115.12.1-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 6ef2402f40aaabf992ad19da30c25707a9b3eb0379f06febaf78fb5524c098a6

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7

SRPM
thunderbird-115.12.1-1.el7_9.src.rpm SHA-256: 9ccdc5e5f139039d08092d7fc5295eda901ead315e4554fac10b7fb25eac43cf
x86_64
thunderbird-115.12.1-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 67ba30d60a6f6f8a67469749bf12b748cc6a7d60a6e87d10b204a736c87d7f5c
thunderbird-debuginfo-115.12.1-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 6ef2402f40aaabf992ad19da30c25707a9b3eb0379f06febaf78fb5524c098a6

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7

SRPM
thunderbird-115.12.1-1.el7_9.src.rpm SHA-256: 9ccdc5e5f139039d08092d7fc5295eda901ead315e4554fac10b7fb25eac43cf
ppc64le
thunderbird-115.12.1-1.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 658d2b7f9cfd57e3a986bfc3ae177272f7886abb8a68f1174f14e1a11e10801e
thunderbird-debuginfo-115.12.1-1.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 43a0a8ace533b098f678803ded85696cc9d7ca4f3d700bc1847342545da5d4e9

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

SRPM
thunderbird-115.12.1-1.el7_9.src.rpm SHA-256: 9ccdc5e5f139039d08092d7fc5295eda901ead315e4554fac10b7fb25eac43cf
ppc64le
thunderbird-115.12.1-1.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 658d2b7f9cfd57e3a986bfc3ae177272f7886abb8a68f1174f14e1a11e10801e
thunderbird-debuginfo-115.12.1-1.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 43a0a8ace533b098f678803ded85696cc9d7ca4f3d700bc1847342545da5d4e9

The Red Hat security contact is secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.

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