Oval Definition:oval:com.redhat.rhsa:def:20181725
Revision Date:2018-05-24Version:636
Title:RHSA-2018:1725: thunderbird security update (Important)
Description:Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.

This update upgrades Thunderbird to version 52.8.0.

Security Fix(es):

  • Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 60 and Firefox ESR 52.8 (CVE-2018-5150)

  • Mozilla: Backport critical security fixes in Skia (CVE-2018-5183)

  • Mozilla: Use-after-free with SVG animations and clip paths (CVE-2018-5154)

  • Mozilla: Use-after-free with SVG animations and text paths (CVE-2018-5155)

  • Mozilla: Integer overflow and out-of-bounds write in Skia (CVE-2018-5159)

  • Mozilla: Full plaintext recovery in S/MIME via chosen-ciphertext attack (CVE-2018-5184)

  • Mozilla: Hang via malformed headers (CVE-2018-5161)

  • Mozilla: Encrypted mail leaks plaintext through src attribute (CVE-2018-5162)

  • Mozilla: Lightweight themes can be installed without user interaction (CVE-2018-5168)

  • Mozilla: Filename spoofing for external attachments (CVE-2018-5170)

  • Mozilla: Buffer overflow during UTF-8 to Unicode string conversion through legacy extension (CVE-2018-5178)

  • Mozilla: Leaking plaintext through HTML forms (CVE-2018-5185)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting CVE-2018-5150, CVE-2018-5154, CVE-2018-5155, CVE-2018-5159, CVE-2018-5168, CVE-2018-5178, and CVE-2018-5183. Upstream acknowledges Christoph Diehl, Randell Jesup, Tyson Smith, Alex Gaynor, Ronald Crane, Julian Hector, Kannan Vijayan, Jason Kratzer, Mozilla Developers, Nils, Ivan Fratric, Wladimir Palant, and Root Object as the original reporters.
  • Family:unixClass:patch
    Status:Reference(s):CVE-2018-5150
    CVE-2018-5154
    CVE-2018-5155
    CVE-2018-5159
    CVE-2018-5161
    CVE-2018-5162
    CVE-2018-5168
    CVE-2018-5170
    CVE-2018-5178
    CVE-2018-5183
    CVE-2018-5184
    CVE-2018-5185
    RHSA-2018:1725
    RHSA-2018:1725-00
    RHSA-2018:1725-01
    Platform(s):Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
    Product(s):
    Definition Synopsis
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux must be installed
  • OR Package Information
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 is installed
  • AND thunderbird is earlier than 0:52.8.0-1.el7_5
  • AND thunderbird is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • BACK