RHSA-2024:6684 - 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 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.

Security Fix(es):

• thunderbird: 115.15/128.2 ()
• mozilla: Type confusion when looking up a property name in a "with" block (CVE-2024-8381)
• mozilla: Internal event interfaces were exposed to web content when browser EventHandler listener callbacks ran (CVE-2024-8382)
• mozilla: Garbage collection could mis-color cross-compartment objects in OOM conditions (CVE-2024-8384)
• mozilla: WASM type confusion involving ArrayTypes (CVE-2024-8385)
• mozilla: SelectElements could be shown over another site if popups are allowed (CVE-2024-8386)
• mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 130, Firefox ESR 128.2, and Thunderbird 128.2 (CVE-2024-8387)
• thunderbird: Crash when aborting verification of OTR chat (CVE-2024-8394)
• mozilla: Type Confusion in Async Generators in Javascript Engine (CVE-2024-7652)

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

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 - 2307331 - thunderbird: 115.15/128.2
• BZ - 2309427 - CVE-2024-8381 mozilla: Type confusion when looking up a property name in a "with" block
• BZ - 2309428 - CVE-2024-8382 mozilla: Internal event interfaces were exposed to web content when browser EventHandler listener callbacks ran
• BZ - 2309430 - CVE-2024-8384 mozilla: Garbage collection could mis-color cross-compartment objects in OOM conditions
• BZ - 2309431 - CVE-2024-8385 mozilla: WASM type confusion involving ArrayTypes
• BZ - 2309432 - CVE-2024-8386 mozilla: SelectElements could be shown over another site if popups are allowed
• BZ - 2309433 - CVE-2024-8387 mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 130, Firefox ESR 128.2, and Thunderbird 128.2
• BZ - 2310481 - CVE-2024-8394 thunderbird: Crash when aborting verification of OTR chat
• BZ - 2310490 - CVE-2024-7652 mozilla: Type Confusion in Async Generators in Javascript Engine

CVEs

• CVE-2024-7652
• CVE-2024-8381
• CVE-2024-8382
• CVE-2024-8384
• CVE-2024-8385
• CVE-2024-8386
• CVE-2024-8387
• CVE-2024-8394

References

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