[RHSA-2018:0061-01] Important: thunderbird security update

Mon Jan 8 04:50:37 UTC 2018

An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
and 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.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) - i386, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6) - i386, ppc64, s390x, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - ppc64le, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) - i386, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM and IBM Power LE (POWER9) Server Optional (v. 7) - aarch64, ppc64le

3. Description:

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.

This update upgrades Thunderbird to version 52.5.2.

Security Fix(es):

* Multiple flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A
web page containing malicious content could cause Thunderbird to crash or,
potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running
Thunderbird. (CVE-2017-7846, CVE-2017-7847, CVE-2017-7848, CVE-2017-7829)

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues.
Upstream acknowledges cure53 and Sabri Haddouche as the original reporters.

4. 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.

5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

1530187 - CVE-2017-7846 Mozilla: JavaScript Execution via RSS in mailbox:// origin
1530190 - CVE-2017-7847 Mozilla: Local path string can be leaked from RSS feed
1530192 - CVE-2017-7848 Mozilla: RSS Feed vulnerable to new line Injection
1530195 - CVE-2017-7829 Mozilla: From address with encoded null character is cut off in message header display

6. Package List:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6):

Source:
thunderbird-52.5.2-1.el6_9.src.rpm

i386:
thunderbird-52.5.2-1.el6_9.i686.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-52.5.2-1.el6_9.i686.rpm

x86_64:
thunderbird-52.5.2-1.el6_9.x86_64.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-52.5.2-1.el6_9.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6):

Source:
thunderbird-52.5.2-1.el6_9.src.rpm

i386:
thunderbird-52.5.2-1.el6_9.i686.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-52.5.2-1.el6_9.i686.rpm

ppc64:
thunderbird-52.5.2-1.el6_9.ppc64.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-52.5.2-1.el6_9.ppc64.rpm

s390x:
thunderbird-52.5.2-1.el6_9.s390x.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-52.5.2-1.el6_9.s390x.rpm

x86_64:
thunderbird-52.5.2-1.el6_9.x86_64.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-52.5.2-1.el6_9.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6):

Source:
thunderbird-52.5.2-1.el6_9.src.rpm

i386:
thunderbird-52.5.2-1.el6_9.i686.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-52.5.2-1.el6_9.i686.rpm

x86_64:
thunderbird-52.5.2-1.el6_9.x86_64.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-52.5.2-1.el6_9.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):

Source:
thunderbird-52.5.2-1.el7_4.src.rpm

x86_64:
thunderbird-52.5.2-1.el7_4.x86_64.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-52.5.2-1.el7_4.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7):

Source:
thunderbird-52.5.2-1.el7_4.src.rpm

ppc64le:
thunderbird-52.5.2-1.el7_4.ppc64le.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-52.5.2-1.el7_4.ppc64le.rpm

x86_64:
thunderbird-52.5.2-1.el7_4.x86_64.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-52.5.2-1.el7_4.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM and IBM Power LE (POWER9) Server Optional (v. 7):

Source:
thunderbird-52.5.2-1.el7_4.src.rpm

aarch64:
thunderbird-52.5.2-1.el7_4.aarch64.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-52.5.2-1.el7_4.aarch64.rpm

ppc64le:
thunderbird-52.5.2-1.el7_4.ppc64le.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-52.5.2-1.el7_4.ppc64le.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7):

Source:
thunderbird-52.5.2-1.el7_4.src.rpm

x86_64:
thunderbird-52.5.2-1.el7_4.x86_64.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-52.5.2-1.el7_4.x86_64.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security.  Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/

7. References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7829
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7846
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7847
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7848
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-30/

8. Contact:

The Red Hat security contact is <secalert at redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

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