Issued:
2024-07-23
Updated:
2024-07-23

RHSA-2024:4717 - 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 8.2 Advanced Update Support.

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.

Security Fix(es):

  • Mozilla: Race condition in permission assignment (CVE-2024-6601)

  • Mozilla: Memory corruption in NSS (CVE-2024-6602)

  • Mozilla: Memory corruption in thread creation (CVE-2024-6603)

  • Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 128, Firefox ESR 115.13, and Thunderbird 115.13 (CVE-2024-6604)

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

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS8.2x86_64

Updated Packages

  • thunderbird-115.13.0-3.el8_2.x86_64.rpm
  • thunderbird-debuginfo-115.13.0-3.el8_2.x86_64.rpm
  • thunderbird-debugsource-115.13.0-3.el8_2.x86_64.rpm
  • thunderbird-115.13.0-3.el8_2.src.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information