[RHSA-2016:1985-01] Important: thunderbird security update

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Red Hat Security Advisory

 

Synopsis: Important: thunderbird security update

Advisory ID: RHSA-2016:1985-01

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Advisory URL: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1985.html

Issue date: 2016-10-03

CVE Names: CVE-2016-5257

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1. Summary:

 

An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5,

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

 

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact

of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability

from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

 

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

 

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 Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6) - i386, ppc64, s390x, x86_64

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

 

This update upgrades Thunderbird to version 45.4.0.

 

Security Fix(es):

 

* Multiple 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-2016-5257)

 

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

Upstream acknowledges Christoph Diehl, Andrew McCreight, Dan Minor, Byron

Campen, Jon Coppeard, Steve Fink, Tyson Smith, Philipp and Carsten Book as

the original reporters.

 

4. Solution:

 

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes

described in this advisory, refer to:

 

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

 

All running instances of Thunderbird must be restarted for the update to

take effect.

 

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

 

1377543 - CVE-2016-5257 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 45.4 (MFSA 2016-85, MFSA 2016-86)

 

6. Package List:

 

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

 

Source:

thunderbird-45.4.0-1.el5_11.src.rpm

 

i386:

thunderbird-45.4.0-1.el5_11.i386.rpm

thunderbird-debuginfo-45.4.0-1.el5_11.i386.rpm

 

x86_64:

thunderbird-45.4.0-1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm

thunderbird-debuginfo-45.4.0-1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server):

 

Source:

thunderbird-45.4.0-1.el5_11.src.rpm

 

i386:

thunderbird-45.4.0-1.el5_11.i386.rpm

thunderbird-debuginfo-45.4.0-1.el5_11.i386.rpm

 

x86_64:

thunderbird-45.4.0-1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm

thunderbird-debuginfo-45.4.0-1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6):

 

Source:

thunderbird-45.4.0-1.el6_8.src.rpm

 

i386:

thunderbird-45.4.0-1.el6_8.i686.rpm

thunderbird-debuginfo-45.4.0-1.el6_8.i686.rpm

 

x86_64:

thunderbird-45.4.0-1.el6_8.x86_64.rpm

thunderbird-debuginfo-45.4.0-1.el6_8.x86_64.rpm

 

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

 

Source:

thunderbird-45.4.0-1.el6_8.src.rpm

 

i386:

thunderbird-45.4.0-1.el6_8.i686.rpm

thunderbird-debuginfo-45.4.0-1.el6_8.i686.rpm

 

ppc64:

thunderbird-45.4.0-1.el6_8.ppc64.rpm

thunderbird-debuginfo-45.4.0-1.el6_8.ppc64.rpm

 

s390x:

thunderbird-45.4.0-1.el6_8.s390x.rpm

thunderbird-debuginfo-45.4.0-1.el6_8.s390x.rpm

 

x86_64:

thunderbird-45.4.0-1.el6_8.x86_64.rpm

thunderbird-debuginfo-45.4.0-1.el6_8.x86_64.rpm

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6):

 

Source:

thunderbird-45.4.0-1.el6_8.src.rpm

 

i386:

thunderbird-45.4.0-1.el6_8.i686.rpm

thunderbird-debuginfo-45.4.0-1.el6_8.i686.rpm

 

x86_64:

thunderbird-45.4.0-1.el6_8.x86_64.rpm

thunderbird-debuginfo-45.4.0-1.el6_8.x86_64.rpm

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):

 

Source:

thunderbird-45.4.0-1.el7_2.src.rpm

 

x86_64:

thunderbird-45.4.0-1.el7_2.x86_64.rpm

thunderbird-debuginfo-45.4.0-1.el7_2.x86_64.rpm

 

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

 

Source:

thunderbird-45.4.0-1.el7_2.src.rpm

 

ppc64le:

thunderbird-45.4.0-1.el7_2.ppc64le.rpm

thunderbird-debuginfo-45.4.0-1.el7_2.ppc64le.rpm

 

x86_64:

thunderbird-45.4.0-1.el7_2.x86_64.rpm

thunderbird-debuginfo-45.4.0-1.el7_2.x86_64.rpm

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7):

 

Source:

thunderbird-45.4.0-1.el7_2.src.rpm

 

x86_64:

thunderbird-45.4.0-1.el7_2.x86_64.rpm

thunderbird-debuginfo-45.4.0-1.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-2016-5257

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

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/thunderbird/#thunderbird45.4

 

8. Contact:

 

The Red Hat security contact is . More contact

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

 

Copyright 2016 Red Hat, Inc.

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