Issued:

2018-04-05

Updated:

2018-04-05

RHSA-2018:0648 - 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 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 52.7.0.

Security Fix(es):

• Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 59 and Firefox ESR 52.7 (MFSA 2018-07) (CVE-2018-5125)

• Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 52.7 (MFSA 2018-07) (CVE-2018-5145)

• Mozilla: Vorbis audio processing out of bounds write (MFSA 2018-08) (CVE-2018-5146)

• Mozilla: Buffer overflow manipulating SVG animatedPathSegList (MFSA 2018-07) (CVE-2018-5127)

• Mozilla: Out-of-bounds write with malformed IPC messages (MFSA 2018-07) (CVE-2018-5129)

• Mozilla: Integer overflow during Unicode conversion (MFSA 2018-07) (CVE-2018-5144)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Bob Clary, Olli Pettay, Christian Holler, Nils Ohlmeier, Randell Jesup, Tyson Smith, Ralph Giles, Philipp, Jet Villegas, Richard Zhu via Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative, Nils, James Grant, and Root Object 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-debuginfo-52.7.0-1.el7_4.ppc64le.rpm
• thunderbird-52.7.0-1.el7_4.x86_64.rpm
• thunderbird-52.7.0-1.el7_4.ppc64le.rpm
• thunderbird-52.7.0-1.el7_4.aarch64.rpm
• thunderbird-52.7.0-1.el7_4.src.rpm
• thunderbird-debuginfo-52.7.0-1.el7_4.aarch64.rpm
• thunderbird-debuginfo-52.7.0-1.el7_4.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 1555127
• This content is not included.BZ - 1555128
• This content is not included.BZ - 1555129
• This content is not included.BZ - 1555132
• This content is not included.BZ - 1555133
• This content is not included.BZ - 1557221

CVEs

• CVE-2018-5125
• CVE-2018-5127
• CVE-2018-5129
• CVE-2018-5144
• CVE-2018-5145
• CVE-2018-5146

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/advisories/mfsa2018-09/

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.