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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Important: thunderbird security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:0061-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0061
Issue date: 2018-01-08
CVE Names: CVE-2017-7829 CVE-2017-7846 CVE-2017-7847
CVE-2017-7848
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1. Summary:
An update for thunderbird is now available for 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. 6) – 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
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM and IBM Power LE (POWER9) Server Optional (v. 7) – aarch64, ppc64le
3. Description:
Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.
This update upgrades Thunderbird to version 52.5.2.
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-2017-7846, CVE-2017-7847, CVE-2017-7848, CVE-2017-7829)
Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues.
Upstream acknowledges cure53 and Sabri Haddouche 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/):
1530187 – CVE-2017-7846 Mozilla: JavaScript Execution via RSS in mailbox:// origin
1530190 – CVE-2017-7847 Mozilla: Local path string can be leaked from RSS feed
1530192 – CVE-2017-7848 Mozilla: RSS Feed vulnerable to new line Injection
1530195 – CVE-2017-7829 Mozilla: From address with encoded null character is cut off in message header display
6. Package List:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6):
Source:
thunderbird-52.5.2-1.el6_9.src.rpm
i386:
thunderbird-52.5.2-1.el6_9.i686.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-52.5.2-1.el6_9.i686.rpm
x86_64:
thunderbird-52.5.2-1.el6_9.x86_64.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-52.5.2-1.el6_9.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6):
Source:
thunderbird-52.5.2-1.el6_9.src.rpm
i386:
thunderbird-52.5.2-1.el6_9.i686.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-52.5.2-1.el6_9.i686.rpm
ppc64:
thunderbird-52.5.2-1.el6_9.ppc64.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-52.5.2-1.el6_9.ppc64.rpm
s390x:
thunderbird-52.5.2-1.el6_9.s390x.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-52.5.2-1.el6_9.s390x.rpm
x86_64:
thunderbird-52.5.2-1.el6_9.x86_64.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-52.5.2-1.el6_9.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6):
Source:
thunderbird-52.5.2-1.el6_9.src.rpm
i386:
thunderbird-52.5.2-1.el6_9.i686.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-52.5.2-1.el6_9.i686.rpm
x86_64:
thunderbird-52.5.2-1.el6_9.x86_64.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-52.5.2-1.el6_9.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source:
thunderbird-52.5.2-1.el7_4.src.rpm
x86_64:
thunderbird-52.5.2-1.el7_4.x86_64.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-52.5.2-1.el7_4.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7):
Source:
thunderbird-52.5.2-1.el7_4.src.rpm
ppc64le:
thunderbird-52.5.2-1.el7_4.ppc64le.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-52.5.2-1.el7_4.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64:
thunderbird-52.5.2-1.el7_4.x86_64.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-52.5.2-1.el7_4.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM and IBM Power LE (POWER9) Server Optional (v. 7):
Source:
thunderbird-52.5.2-1.el7_4.src.rpm
aarch64:
thunderbird-52.5.2-1.el7_4.aarch64.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-52.5.2-1.el7_4.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le:
thunderbird-52.5.2-1.el7_4.ppc64le.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-52.5.2-1.el7_4.ppc64le.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7):
Source:
thunderbird-52.5.2-1.el7_4.src.rpm
x86_64:
thunderbird-52.5.2-1.el7_4.x86_64.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-52.5.2-1.el7_4.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-2017-7829
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7846
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7847
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7848
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-30/
8. Contact:
The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
Copyright 2018 Red Hat, Inc.
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