[RHSA-2014:0449-01] Important: thunderbird security update

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Red Hat Security Advisory

 

Synopsis: Important: thunderbird security update

Advisory ID: RHSA-2014:0449-01

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Advisory URL: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0449.html

Issue date: 2014-04-29

CVE Names: CVE-2014-1518 CVE-2014-1523 CVE-2014-1524

CVE-2014-1529 CVE-2014-1530 CVE-2014-1531

CVE-2014-1532

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1. Summary:

 

An updated thunderbird package that fixes several security issues is now

available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

 

The Red Hat Security Response Team 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 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-2014-1518, CVE-2014-1524, CVE-2014-1529, CVE-2014-1531)

 

A use-after-free flaw was found in the way Thunderbird resolved hosts in

certain circumstances. An attacker could use this flaw to crash Thunderbird

or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user

running Thunderbird. (CVE-2014-1532)

 

An out-of-bounds read flaw was found in the way Thunderbird decoded JPEG

images. Loading an email or a web page containing a specially crafted JPEG

image could cause Thunderbird to crash. (CVE-2014-1523)

 

A flaw was found in the way Thunderbird handled browser navigations through

history. An attacker could possibly use this flaw to cause the address bar

of the browser to display a web page name while loading content from an

entirely different web page, which could allow for cross-site scripting

(XSS) attacks. (CVE-2014-1530)

 

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues.

Upstream acknowledges Bobby Holley, Carsten Book, Christoph Diehl, Gary

Kwong, Jan de Mooij, Jesse Ruderman, Nathan Froyd, Christian Holler,

Abhishek Arya, Mariusz Mlynski, moz_bug_r_a4, Nils, Tyson Smith and Jesse

Schwartzentrube as the original reporters of these issues.

 

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.

 

For technical details regarding these flaws, refer to the Mozilla security

advisories for Thunderbird 24.5.0. 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 24.5.0, 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/site/articles/11258

 

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

 

1092657 - CVE-2014-1518 Mozilla: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:24.5) (MFSA 2014-34)

1092660 - CVE-2014-1523 Mozilla: Out of bounds read while decoding JPG images (MFSA-2014-37)

1092663 - CVE-2014-1524 Mozilla: Buffer overflow when using non-XBL object as XBL (MFSA 2014-38)

1092664 - CVE-2014-1529 Mozilla: Privilege escalation through Web Notification API (MFSA 2014-42)

1092666 - CVE-2014-1530 Mozilla: Cross-site scripting (XSS) using history navigations (MFSA 2014-43)

1092668 - CVE-2014-1531 Mozilla: Use-after-free in imgLoader while resizing images (MFSA 2014-44)

1092670 - CVE-2014-1532 Mozilla: Use-after-free in nsHostResolver (MFSA 2014-46)

 

6. Package List:

 

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

 

Source:

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Client/en/os/SRPMS/thunderbird-24.5.0-1.el5_10.src.rpm

 

i386:

thunderbird-24.5.0-1.el5_10.i386.rpm

thunderbird-debuginfo-24.5.0-1.el5_10.i386.rpm

 

x86_64:

thunderbird-24.5.0-1.el5_10.x86_64.rpm

thunderbird-debuginfo-24.5.0-1.el5_10.x86_64.rpm

 

RHEL Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server):

 

Source:

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Server/en/os/SRPMS/thunderbird-24.5.0-1.el5_10.src.rpm

 

i386:

thunderbird-24.5.0-1.el5_10.i386.rpm

thunderbird-debuginfo-24.5.0-1.el5_10.i386.rpm

 

x86_64:

thunderbird-24.5.0-1.el5_10.x86_64.rpm

thunderbird-debuginfo-24.5.0-1.el5_10.x86_64.rpm

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6):

 

Source:

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Client/en/os/SRPMS/thunderbird-24.5.0-1.el6_5.src.rpm

 

i386:

thunderbird-24.5.0-1.el6_5.i686.rpm

thunderbird-debuginfo-24.5.0-1.el6_5.i686.rpm

 

x86_64:

thunderbird-24.5.0-1.el6_5.x86_64.rpm

thunderbird-debuginfo-24.5.0-1.el6_5.x86_64.rpm

 

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

 

Source:

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Server/en/os/SRPMS/thunderbird-24.5.0-1.el6_5.src.rpm

 

i386:

thunderbird-24.5.0-1.el6_5.i686.rpm

thunderbird-debuginfo-24.5.0-1.el6_5.i686.rpm

 

ppc64:

thunderbird-24.5.0-1.el6_5.ppc64.rpm

thunderbird-debuginfo-24.5.0-1.el6_5.ppc64.rpm

 

s390x:

thunderbird-24.5.0-1.el6_5.s390x.rpm

thunderbird-debuginfo-24.5.0-1.el6_5.s390x.rpm

 

x86_64:

thunderbird-24.5.0-1.el6_5.x86_64.rpm

thunderbird-debuginfo-24.5.0-1.el6_5.x86_64.rpm

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6):

 

Source:

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Workstation/en/os/SRPMS/thunderbird-24.5.0-1.el6_5.src.rpm

 

i386:

thunderbird-24.5.0-1.el6_5.i686.rpm

thunderbird-debuginfo-24.5.0-1.el6_5.i686.rpm

 

x86_64:

thunderbird-24.5.0-1.el6_5.x86_64.rpm

thunderbird-debuginfo-24.5.0-1.el6_5.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-2014-1518.html

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2014-1523.html

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2014-1524.html

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2014-1529.html

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2014-1530.html

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2014-1531.html

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2014-1532.html

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/thunderbird.html#thunderbird24.5

 

8. Contact:

 

The Red Hat security contact is . More contact

details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

 

Copyright 2014 Red Hat, Inc.

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