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Posted on 25 October 2022
RedHat===================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Important: thunderbird security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:7181-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:7181
Issue date: 2022-10-25
CVE Names: CVE-2022-39236 CVE-2022-39249 CVE-2022-39250
CVE-2022-39251 CVE-2022-42927 CVE-2022-42928
CVE-2022-42929 CVE-2022-42932
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1. Summary:
An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4
Extended 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.
2. Relevant releases/architectures:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.4) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64
3. Description:
Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.
This update upgrades Thunderbird to version 102.4.0.
Security Fix(es):
* Mozilla: Matrix SDK bundled with Thunderbird vulnerable to an
impersonation attack by malicious server administrators (CVE-2022-39249)
* Mozilla: Matrix SDK bundled with Thunderbird vulnerable to a device
verification attack (CVE-2022-39250)
* Mozilla: Matrix SDK bundled with Thunderbird vulnerable to an
impersonation attack (CVE-2022-39251)
* Mozilla: Same-origin policy violation could have leaked cross-origin URLs
(CVE-2022-42927)
* Mozilla: Memory Corruption in JS Engine (CVE-2022-42928)
* Mozilla: Matrix SDK bundled with Thunderbird vulnerable to a data
corruption issue (CVE-2022-39236)
* Mozilla: Denial of Service via window.print (CVE-2022-42929)
* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 102.4 and Thunderbird
102.4 (CVE-2022-42932)
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.
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/):
2135391 - CVE-2022-39236 Mozilla: Matrix SDK bundled with Thunderbird vulnerable to a data corruption issue
2135393 - CVE-2022-39249 Mozilla: Matrix SDK bundled with Thunderbird vulnerable to an impersonation attack by malicious server administrators
2135395 - CVE-2022-39250 Mozilla: Matrix SDK bundled with Thunderbird vulnerable to a device verification attack
2135396 - CVE-2022-39251 Mozilla: Matrix SDK bundled with Thunderbird vulnerable to an impersonation attack
2136156 - CVE-2022-42927 Mozilla: Same-origin policy violation could have leaked cross-origin URLs
2136157 - CVE-2022-42928 Mozilla: Memory Corruption in JS Engine
2136158 - CVE-2022-42929 Mozilla: Denial of Service via window.print
2136159 - CVE-2022-42932 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 102.4 and Thunderbird 102.4
6. Package List:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.4):
Source:
thunderbird-102.4.0-1.el8_4.src.rpm
aarch64:
thunderbird-102.4.0-1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-102.4.0-1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm
thunderbird-debugsource-102.4.0-1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le:
thunderbird-102.4.0-1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-102.4.0-1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
thunderbird-debugsource-102.4.0-1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
s390x:
thunderbird-102.4.0-1.el8_4.s390x.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-102.4.0-1.el8_4.s390x.rpm
thunderbird-debugsource-102.4.0-1.el8_4.s390x.rpm
x86_64:
thunderbird-102.4.0-1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-102.4.0-1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
thunderbird-debugsource-102.4.0-1.el8_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-2022-39236
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-39249
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-39250
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-39251
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-42927
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-42928
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-42929
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-42932
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
8. Contact:
The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
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