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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Important: thunderbird security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2014:1647-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1647.html
Issue date: 2014-10-15
CVE Names: CVE-2014-1574 CVE-2014-1577 CVE-2014-1578
CVE-2014-1581
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1. Summary:
An updated thunderbird package that fixes multiple security issues is now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security
impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give
detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the
CVE links in the References section.
2. Relevant releases/architectures:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) - i386, 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 Workstation (v. 6) - i386, x86_64
3. Description:
Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.
Several 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-2014-1574, CVE-2014-1578, CVE-2014-1581, CVE-2014-1577)
Note: All of the above issues cannot be exploited by a specially crafted
HTML mail message as JavaScript is disabled by default for mail messages.
They could be exploited another way in Thunderbird, for example, when
viewing the full remote content of an RSS feed.
Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues.
Upstream acknowledges Bobby Holley, Christian Holler, David Bolter, Byron
Campen Jon Coppeard, Holger Fuhrmannek, Abhishek Arya, and regenrecht as
the original reporters of these issues.
For technical details regarding these flaws, refer to the Mozilla security
advisories for Thunderbird 31.2.0. You can find a link to the Mozilla
advisories in the References section of this erratum.
All Thunderbird users should upgrade to this updated package, which
contains Thunderbird version 31.2.0, which corrects these issues.
After installing the update, Thunderbird must be restarted for the changes
to take effect.
4. Solution:
Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.
This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to
use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
1152356 - CVE-2014-1574 Mozilla: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:31.2) (MFSA 2014-74)
1152359 - CVE-2014-1577 Mozilla: Web Audio memory corruption issues with custom waveforms (MFSA 2014-76)
1152361 - CVE-2014-1578 Mozilla: Out-of-bounds write with WebM video (MFSA 2014-77)
1152363 - CVE-2014-1581 Mozilla: Use-after-free interacting with text directionality (MFSA 2014-79)
6. Package List:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client):
Source:
thunderbird-31.2.0-2.el5_11.src.rpm
i386:
thunderbird-31.2.0-2.el5_11.i386.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-31.2.0-2.el5_11.i386.rpm
x86_64:
thunderbird-31.2.0-2.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-31.2.0-2.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6):
Source:
thunderbird-31.2.0-3.el6_6.src.rpm
i386:
thunderbird-31.2.0-3.el6_6.i686.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-31.2.0-3.el6_6.i686.rpm
x86_64:
thunderbird-31.2.0-3.el6_6.x86_64.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-31.2.0-3.el6_6.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6):
Source:
thunderbird-31.2.0-3.el6_6.src.rpm
i386:
thunderbird-31.2.0-3.el6_6.i686.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-31.2.0-3.el6_6.i686.rpm
ppc64:
thunderbird-31.2.0-3.el6_6.ppc64.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-31.2.0-3.el6_6.ppc64.rpm
s390x:
thunderbird-31.2.0-3.el6_6.s390x.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-31.2.0-3.el6_6.s390x.rpm
x86_64:
thunderbird-31.2.0-3.el6_6.x86_64.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-31.2.0-3.el6_6.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6):
Source:
thunderbird-31.2.0-3.el6_6.src.rpm
i386:
thunderbird-31.2.0-3.el6_6.i686.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-31.2.0-3.el6_6.i686.rpm
x86_64:
thunderbird-31.2.0-3.el6_6.x86_64.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-31.2.0-3.el6_6.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/#package
7. References:
https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2014-1574.html
https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2014-1577.html
https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2014-1578.html
https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2014-1581.html
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/thunderbird.html#thunderbird31.2
8. Contact:
The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
Copyright 2014 Red Hat, Inc.
