Oval Definition:oval:com.redhat.rhsa:def:20182252
Revision Date:2018-07-24Version:635
Title:RHSA-2018:2252: thunderbird security update (Important)
Description:Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.

This update upgrades Thunderbird to version 52.9.1.

Security Fix(es):

  • Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 61, Firefox ESR 60.1, and Firefox ESR 52.9 (CVE-2018-5188)

  • Mozilla: Buffer overflow using computed size of canvas element (CVE-2018-12359)

  • Mozilla: Use-after-free using focus() (CVE-2018-12360)

  • Mozilla: Integer overflow in SSSE3 scaler (CVE-2018-12362)

  • Mozilla: Use-after-free when appending DOM nodes (CVE-2018-12363)

  • Mozilla: CSRF attacks through 307 redirects and NPAPI plugins (CVE-2018-12364)

  • thunderbird: S/MIME and PGP decryption oracles can be built with HTML emails (CVE-2018-12372)

  • thunderbird: S/MIME plaintext can be leaked through HTML reply/forward (CVE-2018-12373)

  • Mozilla: Compromised IPC child process can list local filenames (CVE-2018-12365)

  • Mozilla: Invalid data handling during QCMS transformations (CVE-2018-12366)

  • thunderbird: Using form to exfiltrate encrypted mail part by pressing enter in form field (CVE-2018-12374)

    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 these issues. Upstream acknowledges Alex Gaynor, Christoph Diehl, Christian Holler, Jason Kratzer, David Major, Jon Coppeard, Nicolas B. Pierron, Marcia Knous, Ronald Crane, Nils, F. Alonso (revskills), David Black, and OSS-Fuzz as the original reporters.
  • Family:unixClass:patch
    Status:Reference(s):CVE-2018-12359
    CVE-2018-12360
    CVE-2018-12362
    CVE-2018-12363
    CVE-2018-12364
    CVE-2018-12365
    CVE-2018-12366
    CVE-2018-12372
    CVE-2018-12373
    CVE-2018-12374
    CVE-2018-5188
    RHSA-2018:2252
    RHSA-2018:2252-00
    RHSA-2018:2252-01
    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 0:52.9.1-1.el7_5
  • AND thunderbird is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
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