Issued:

2017-06-21

Updated:

2017-06-21

RHSA-2017:1561 - Important: thunderbird security update

Synopsis

Important: thunderbird security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 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 52.2.0.

Security Fix(es):

• Multiple 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-2017-5470, CVE-2017-5472, CVE-2017-7749, CVE-2017-7750, CVE-2017-7751, CVE-2017-7756, CVE-2017-7771, CVE-2017-7772, CVE-2017-7773, CVE-2017-7774, CVE-2017-7775, CVE-2017-7776, CVE-2017-7777, CVE-2017-7778, CVE-2017-7752, CVE-2017-7754, CVE-2017-7757, CVE-2017-7758, CVE-2017-7764)

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Nils, Nicolas Trippar (Zimperium zLabs), Tyson Smith, Mats Palmgren, Philipp, Masayuki Nakano, Christian Holler, Andrew McCreight, Gary Kwong, André Bargull, Carsten Book, Jesse Schwartzentruber, Julian Hector, Marcia Knous, Ronald Crane, Samuel Erb, Holger Fuhrmannek, Abhishek Arya, and F. Alonso (revskills) as the original reporters.

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

Updated Packages

• thunderbird-52.2.0-1.el6_9.ppc64.rpm
• thunderbird-52.2.0-1.el7_3.ppc64le.rpm
• thunderbird-debuginfo-52.2.0-1.el6_9.x86_64.rpm
• thunderbird-52.2.0-1.el6_9.i686.rpm
• thunderbird-52.2.0-1.el6_9.x86_64.rpm
• thunderbird-52.2.0-1.el6_9.src.rpm
• thunderbird-52.2.0-1.el7_3.src.rpm
• thunderbird-debuginfo-52.2.0-1.el7_3.aarch64.rpm
• thunderbird-debuginfo-52.2.0-1.el6_9.s390x.rpm
• thunderbird-52.2.0-1.el7_3.aarch64.rpm
• thunderbird-52.2.0-1.el6_9.s390x.rpm
• thunderbird-52.2.0-1.el7_3.x86_64.rpm
• thunderbird-debuginfo-52.2.0-1.el7_3.x86_64.rpm
• thunderbird-debuginfo-52.2.0-1.el6_9.ppc64.rpm
• thunderbird-debuginfo-52.2.0-1.el6_9.i686.rpm
• thunderbird-debuginfo-52.2.0-1.el7_3.ppc64le.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 1461252
• This content is not included.BZ - 1461253
• This content is not included.BZ - 1461254
• This content is not included.BZ - 1461255
• This content is not included.BZ - 1461256
• This content is not included.BZ - 1461257
• This content is not included.BZ - 1461258
• This content is not included.BZ - 1461259
• This content is not included.BZ - 1461260
• This content is not included.BZ - 1461261
• This content is not included.BZ - 1461262
• This content is not included.BZ - 1461264

CVEs

• CVE-2017-5470
• CVE-2017-5472
• CVE-2017-7749
• CVE-2017-7750
• CVE-2017-7751
• CVE-2017-7752
• CVE-2017-7754
• CVE-2017-7756
• CVE-2017-7757
• CVE-2017-7758
• CVE-2017-7764
• CVE-2017-7771
• CVE-2017-7772
• CVE-2017-7773
• CVE-2017-7774
• CVE-2017-7775
• CVE-2017-7776
• CVE-2017-7777
• CVE-2017-7778

References

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

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.