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Posted on 07 August 2023
RedHat===================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Important: thunderbird security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:4497-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:4497
Issue date: 2023-08-07
CVE Names: CVE-2023-3417 CVE-2023-4045 CVE-2023-4046
CVE-2023-4047 CVE-2023-4048 CVE-2023-4049
CVE-2023-4050 CVE-2023-4055 CVE-2023-4056
CVE-2023-4057
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1. Summary:
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 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 (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64
3. Description:
Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.
This update upgrades Thunderbird to version 102.14.0.
Security Fix(es):
* Mozilla: Offscreen Canvas could have bypassed cross-origin restrictions
(CVE-2023-4045)
* Mozilla: Incorrect value used during WASM compilation (CVE-2023-4046)
* Mozilla: Potential permissions request bypass via clickjacking
(CVE-2023-4047)
* Mozilla: Crash in DOMParser due to out-of-memory conditions
(CVE-2023-4048)
* Mozilla: Fix potential race conditions when releasing platform objects
(CVE-2023-4049)
* Mozilla: Stack buffer overflow in StorageManager (CVE-2023-4050)
* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 116, Firefox ESR 115.1,
Firefox ESR 102.14, Thunderbird 115.1, and Thunderbird 102.14
(CVE-2023-4056)
* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 115.1, and Thunderbird
115.1 (CVE-2023-4057)
* thunderbird: File Extension Spoofing using the Text Direction Override
Character (CVE-2023-3417)
* Mozilla: Cookie jar overflow caused unexpected cookie jar state
(CVE-2023-4055)
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/):
2225325 - CVE-2023-3417 thunderbird: File Extension Spoofing using the Text Direction Override Character
2228360 - CVE-2023-4045 Mozilla: Offscreen Canvas could have bypassed cross-origin restrictions
2228361 - CVE-2023-4046 Mozilla: Incorrect value used during WASM compilation
2228362 - CVE-2023-4047 Mozilla: Potential permissions request bypass via clickjacking
2228363 - CVE-2023-4048 Mozilla: Crash in DOMParser due to out-of-memory conditions
2228364 - CVE-2023-4049 Mozilla: Fix potential race conditions when releasing platform objects
2228365 - CVE-2023-4050 Mozilla: Stack buffer overflow in StorageManager
2228367 - CVE-2023-4055 Mozilla: Cookie jar overflow caused unexpected cookie jar state
2228370 - CVE-2023-4056 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 116, Firefox ESR 115.1, Firefox ESR 102.14, Thunderbird 115.1, and Thunderbird 102.14
2228371 - CVE-2023-4057 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 115.1, and Thunderbird 115.1
6. Package List:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source:
thunderbird-102.14.0-1.el8_8.src.rpm
aarch64:
thunderbird-102.14.0-1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-102.14.0-1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm
thunderbird-debugsource-102.14.0-1.el8_8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le:
thunderbird-102.14.0-1.el8_8.ppc64le.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-102.14.0-1.el8_8.ppc64le.rpm
thunderbird-debugsource-102.14.0-1.el8_8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x:
thunderbird-102.14.0-1.el8_8.s390x.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-102.14.0-1.el8_8.s390x.rpm
thunderbird-debugsource-102.14.0-1.el8_8.s390x.rpm
x86_64:
thunderbird-102.14.0-1.el8_8.x86_64.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-102.14.0-1.el8_8.x86_64.rpm
thunderbird-debugsource-102.14.0-1.el8_8.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-2023-3417
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4045
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4046
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4047
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4048
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4049
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4050
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4055
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4056
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4057
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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