Oval Definition:oval:com.redhat.rhsa:def:20152519
Revision Date:2015-11-26Version:638
Title:RHSA-2015:2519: thunderbird security update (Important)
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.
  • Family:unixClass:patch
    Status:Reference(s):CVE-2015-4513
    CVE-2015-7189
    CVE-2015-7193
    CVE-2015-7197
    CVE-2015-7198
    CVE-2015-7199
    CVE-2015-7200
    RHSA-2015:2519
    RHSA-2015:2519-00
    RHSA-2015:2519-01
    Platform(s):Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
    Product(s):
    Definition Synopsis
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux must be installed
  • OR Package Information
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is installed
  • AND thunderbird is earlier than 0:38.4.0-1.el5_11
  • AND thunderbird is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • OR Package Information
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is installed
  • AND thunderbird is earlier than 0:38.4.0-1.el6_7
  • AND thunderbird is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • OR Package Information
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 is installed
  • AND thunderbird is earlier than 0:38.4.0-1.el7_2
  • AND thunderbird is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
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