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[RHSA-2015:2519-01] Important: thunderbird security update

Posted on 26 November 2015
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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Important: thunderbird security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2015:2519-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2519.html
Issue date: 2015-11-26
CVE Names: CVE-2015-4513 CVE-2015-7189 CVE-2015-7193
CVE-2015-7197 CVE-2015-7198 CVE-2015-7199
CVE-2015-7200
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1. Summary:

An updated thunderbird package that fixes multiple security issues is now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7.

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:

RHEL Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server) - i386, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - x86_64
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 Server Optional (v. 7) - aarch64, ppc64le, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) - i386, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - 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-2015-4513, CVE-2015-7189, CVE-2015-7197, CVE-2015-7198,
CVE-2015-7199, CVE-2015-7200)

A same-origin policy bypass flaw was found in the way Thunderbird handled
certain cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) requests. A web page
containing malicious content could cause Thunderbird to disclose sensitive
information. (CVE-2015-7193)

Note: All of the above issues cannot be exploited by a specially crafted
HTML mail message because JavaScript is disabled by default for mail
messages. However, they could be exploited in other ways in Thunderbird
(for example, by viewing the full remote content of an RSS feed).

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue.
Upstream acknowledges Christian Holler, David Major, Jesse Ruderman, Tyson
Smith, Boris Zbarsky, Randell Jesup, Olli Pettay, Karl Tomlinson, Jeff
Walden, Gary Kwong, Looben Yang, Shinto K Anto, Ronald Crane, and Ehsan
Akhgari as the original reporters of these issues.

For technical details regarding these flaws, refer to the Mozilla security
advisories for Thunderbird 38.4.0. 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 38.4.0, 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.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

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

1277332 - CVE-2015-4513 Mozilla: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:38.4) (MFSA 2015-116)
1277344 - CVE-2015-7189 Mozilla: Buffer overflow during image interactions in canvas (MFSA 2015-123)
1277346 - CVE-2015-7193 Mozilla: CORS preflight is bypassed when non-standard Content-Type headers are received (MFSA 2015-127)
1277350 - CVE-2015-7198 CVE-2015-7199 CVE-2015-7200 Mozilla: Vulnerabilities found through code inspection (MFSA 2015-131)
1277351 - CVE-2015-7197 Mozilla: Mixed content WebSocket policy bypass through workers (MFSA 2015-132)

6. Package List:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client):

Source:
thunderbird-38.4.0-1.el5_11.src.rpm

i386:
thunderbird-38.4.0-1.el5_11.i386.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-38.4.0-1.el5_11.i386.rpm

x86_64:
thunderbird-38.4.0-1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-38.4.0-1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm

RHEL Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server):

Source:
thunderbird-38.4.0-1.el5_11.src.rpm

i386:
thunderbird-38.4.0-1.el5_11.i386.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-38.4.0-1.el5_11.i386.rpm

x86_64:
thunderbird-38.4.0-1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-38.4.0-1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6):

Source:
thunderbird-38.4.0-1.el6_7.src.rpm

i386:
thunderbird-38.4.0-1.el6_7.i686.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-38.4.0-1.el6_7.i686.rpm

x86_64:
thunderbird-38.4.0-1.el6_7.x86_64.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-38.4.0-1.el6_7.x86_64.rpm

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

Source:
thunderbird-38.4.0-1.el6_7.src.rpm

i386:
thunderbird-38.4.0-1.el6_7.i686.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-38.4.0-1.el6_7.i686.rpm

ppc64:
thunderbird-38.4.0-1.el6_7.ppc64.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-38.4.0-1.el6_7.ppc64.rpm

s390x:
thunderbird-38.4.0-1.el6_7.s390x.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-38.4.0-1.el6_7.s390x.rpm

x86_64:
thunderbird-38.4.0-1.el6_7.x86_64.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-38.4.0-1.el6_7.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6):

Source:
thunderbird-38.4.0-1.el6_7.src.rpm

i386:
thunderbird-38.4.0-1.el6_7.i686.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-38.4.0-1.el6_7.i686.rpm

x86_64:
thunderbird-38.4.0-1.el6_7.x86_64.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-38.4.0-1.el6_7.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):

Source:
thunderbird-38.4.0-1.el7_2.src.rpm

x86_64:
thunderbird-38.4.0-1.el7_2.x86_64.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-38.4.0-1.el7_2.x86_64.rpm

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

Source:
thunderbird-38.4.0-1.el7_2.src.rpm

aarch64:
thunderbird-38.4.0-1.el7_2.aarch64.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-38.4.0-1.el7_2.aarch64.rpm

ppc64le:
thunderbird-38.4.0-1.el7_2.ppc64le.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-38.4.0-1.el7_2.ppc64le.rpm

x86_64:
thunderbird-38.4.0-1.el7_2.x86_64.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-38.4.0-1.el7_2.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7):

Source:
thunderbird-38.4.0-1.el7_2.src.rpm

x86_64:
thunderbird-38.4.0-1.el7_2.x86_64.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-38.4.0-1.el7_2.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-2015-4513
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7189
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7193
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7197
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7198
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7199
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7200
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/thunderbird/#thunderbird38.4

8. Contact:

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

Copyright 2015 Red Hat, Inc.

 

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