Issued:
2024-03-25
Updated:
2024-03-25

RHSA-2024:1494 - Moderate: thunderbird security update

Synopsis

Moderate: thunderbird security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

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 Moderate. 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 115.9.0.

Security Fix(es):

  • nss: timing attack against RSA decryption (CVE-2023-5388)

  • Mozilla: Crash in NSS TLS method (CVE-2024-0743)

  • Mozilla: Leaking of encrypted email subjects to other conversations (CVE-2024-1936)

  • Mozilla: JIT code failed to save return registers on Armv7-A (CVE-2024-2607)

  • Mozilla: Integer overflow could have led to out of bounds write (CVE-2024-2608)

  • Mozilla: Improper handling of html and body tags enabled CSP nonce leakage (CVE-2024-2610)

  • Mozilla: Clickjacking vulnerability could have led to a user accidentally granting permissions (CVE-2024-2611)

  • Mozilla: Self referencing object could have potentially led to a use-after-free (CVE-2024-2612)

  • Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 124, Firefox ESR 115.9, and Thunderbird 115.9 (CVE-2024-2614)

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 - Extended Life Cycle8.10x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian8ppc64le
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 Life Cycle8.10s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 648aarch64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Life Cycle8.10aarch64

Updated Packages

  • thunderbird-115.9.0-1.el8_9.ppc64le.rpm
  • thunderbird-debuginfo-115.9.0-1.el8_9.ppc64le.rpm
  • thunderbird-debuginfo-115.9.0-1.el8_9.x86_64.rpm
  • thunderbird-115.9.0-1.el8_9.x86_64.rpm
  • thunderbird-debugsource-115.9.0-1.el8_9.ppc64le.rpm
  • thunderbird-debugsource-115.9.0-1.el8_9.s390x.rpm
  • thunderbird-debugsource-115.9.0-1.el8_9.x86_64.rpm
  • thunderbird-debuginfo-115.9.0-1.el8_9.s390x.rpm
  • thunderbird-debugsource-115.9.0-1.el8_9.aarch64.rpm
  • thunderbird-115.9.0-1.el8_9.s390x.rpm
  • thunderbird-debuginfo-115.9.0-1.el8_9.aarch64.rpm
  • thunderbird-115.9.0-1.el8_9.aarch64.rpm
  • thunderbird-115.9.0-1.el8_9.src.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information