Issued:

2023-09-18

Updated:

2023-09-18

RHSA-2023:5191 - 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 102.15.1.

Security Fix(es):

• libwebp: Heap buffer overflow in WebP Codec (CVE-2023-4863)

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

Updated Packages

• thunderbird-102.15.1-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm
• thunderbird-102.15.1-1.el7_9.src.rpm
• thunderbird-102.15.1-1.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm
• thunderbird-debuginfo-102.15.1-1.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm
• thunderbird-debuginfo-102.15.1-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

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CVEs

• CVE-2023-4863
• CVE-2023-5129

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.