Issued:

2015-05-18

Updated:

2015-05-18

RHSA-2015:1012 - Important: thunderbird security update

Synopsis

Important: thunderbird security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

An updated thunderbird package that fixes multiple security issues is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

Description

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.

Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Thunderbird to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2015-2708, CVE-2015-2710, CVE-2015-2713)

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way Thunderbird processed compressed XML data. An attacker could create specially crafted compressed XML content that, when processed by Thunderbird, could cause it to crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2015-2716)

Note: All of the above issues cannot be exploited by a specially crafted HTML mail message as JavaScript is disabled by default for mail messages. They could be exploited another way in Thunderbird, for example, when viewing the full remote content of an RSS feed.

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Jesse Ruderman, Mats Palmgren, Byron Campen, Steve Fink, Atte Kettunen, Scott Bell, and Ucha Gobejishvili as the original reporters of these issues.

For technical details regarding these flaws, refer to the Mozilla security advisories for Thunderbird 31.7. You can find a link to the Mozilla advisories in the References section of this erratum.

All Thunderbird users should upgrade to this updated package, which contains Thunderbird version 31.7, which corrects these issues. After installing the update, Thunderbird must be restarted for the changes to take effect.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• thunderbird-31.7.0-1.el6_6.x86_64.rpm
• thunderbird-31.7.0-1.el6_6.src.rpm
• thunderbird-31.7.0-1.el6_6.s390x.rpm
• thunderbird-31.7.0-1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
• thunderbird-31.7.0-1.el6_6.i686.rpm
• thunderbird-31.7.0-1.el5_11.src.rpm
• thunderbird-31.7.0-1.el7_1.x86_64.rpm
• thunderbird-31.7.0-1.el5_11.i386.rpm
• thunderbird-debuginfo-31.7.0-1.el7_1.x86_64.rpm
• thunderbird-debuginfo-31.7.0-1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
• thunderbird-debuginfo-31.7.0-1.el6_6.i686.rpm
• thunderbird-debuginfo-31.7.0-1.el6_6.s390x.rpm
• thunderbird-debuginfo-31.7.0-1.el6_6.ppc64.rpm
• thunderbird-debuginfo-31.7.0-1.el5_11.i386.rpm
• thunderbird-31.7.0-1.el6_6.ppc64.rpm
• thunderbird-debuginfo-31.7.0-1.el6_6.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 1220597
• This content is not included.BZ - 1220601
• This content is not included.BZ - 1220605
• This content is not included.BZ - 1220607

CVEs

• CVE-2015-2710
• CVE-2015-2708
• CVE-2015-2713
• CVE-2015-2716

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• Content from www.mozilla.org is not included.Content from www.mozilla.org is not included.https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/thunderbird/#thunderbird31.7

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
• Offline Security Data data is available for integration with other systems. See Offline Security Data API to get started.