Issued:
2023-04-17
Updated:
2023-04-17

RHSA-2023:1802 - 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 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.

This update upgrades Thunderbird to version 102.10.0.

Security Fix(es):

  • Thunderbird: Revocation status of S/Mime recipient certificates was not checked (CVE-2023-0547)

  • Mozilla: Matrix SDK bundled with Thunderbird vulnerable to denial-of-service attack (CVE-2023-28427)

  • Mozilla: Fullscreen notification obscured (CVE-2023-29533)

  • Mozilla: Potential Memory Corruption following Garbage Collector compaction (CVE-2023-29535)

  • Mozilla: Invalid free from JavaScript code (CVE-2023-29536)

  • Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 112 and Firefox ESR 102.10 (CVE-2023-29550)

  • Mozilla: Memory Corruption in Safe Browsing Code (CVE-2023-1945)

  • Thunderbird: Hang when processing certain OpenPGP messages (CVE-2023-29479)

  • Mozilla: Content-Disposition filename truncation leads to Reflected File Download (CVE-2023-29539)

  • Mozilla: Files with malicious extensions could have been downloaded unsafely on Linux (CVE-2023-29541)

  • Mozilla: Incorrect optimization result on ARM64 (CVE-2023-29548)

  • MFSA-TMP-2023-0001 Mozilla: Double-free in libwebp (BZ#2186102)

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

All running instances of Thunderbird must be restarted for the update to take effect.

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_648x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions8.8x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support8.8x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support Extension8.8x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Life Cycle8.10x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian8ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support8.8ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Life Cycle8.10ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems8s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support8.8s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Life Cycle8.10s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 648aarch64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support8.8aarch64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Life Cycle8.10aarch64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions8.8ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS8.8x86_64

Updated Packages

  • thunderbird-102.10.0-2.el8_7.aarch64.rpm
  • thunderbird-102.10.0-2.el8_7.x86_64.rpm
  • thunderbird-debuginfo-102.10.0-2.el8_7.aarch64.rpm
  • thunderbird-102.10.0-2.el8_7.s390x.rpm
  • thunderbird-debuginfo-102.10.0-2.el8_7.ppc64le.rpm
  • thunderbird-102.10.0-2.el8_7.ppc64le.rpm
  • thunderbird-debuginfo-102.10.0-2.el8_7.s390x.rpm
  • thunderbird-debuginfo-102.10.0-2.el8_7.x86_64.rpm
  • thunderbird-debugsource-102.10.0-2.el8_7.aarch64.rpm
  • thunderbird-debugsource-102.10.0-2.el8_7.s390x.rpm
  • thunderbird-102.10.0-2.el8_7.src.rpm
  • thunderbird-debugsource-102.10.0-2.el8_7.ppc64le.rpm
  • thunderbird-debugsource-102.10.0-2.el8_7.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

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References

Additional information