A thunderbird security update has been released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1.

RHSA-2020:5644-01: Important: thunderbird security update

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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Important: thunderbird security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:5644-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL:   https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5644
Issue date: 2020-12-21
CVE Names: CVE-2020-16042 CVE-2020-26970 CVE-2020-26971
CVE-2020-26973 CVE-2020-26974 CVE-2020-26978
CVE-2020-35111 CVE-2020-35113
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1. Summary:

An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1
Extended Update Support.

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 AppStream EUS (v. 8.1) - ppc64le, x86_64

3. Description:

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.

This update upgrades Thunderbird to version 78.6.0.

Security Fix(es):

* chromium-browser: Uninitialized Use in V8 (CVE-2020-16042)

* Mozilla: Stack overflow due to incorrect parsing of SMTP server response
codes (CVE-2020-26970)

* Mozilla: Heap buffer overflow in WebGL (CVE-2020-26971)

* Mozilla: CSS Sanitizer performed incorrect sanitization (CVE-2020-26973)

* Mozilla: Incorrect cast of StyleGenericFlexBasis resulted in a heap
use-after-free (CVE-2020-26974)

* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 84 and Firefox ESR 78.6
(CVE-2020-35113)

* Mozilla: Internal network hosts could have been probed by a malicious
webpage (CVE-2020-26978)

* Mozilla: The proxy.onRequest API did not catch view-source URLs
(CVE-2020-35111)

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

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/):

1903443 - CVE-2020-26970 Mozilla: Stack overflow due to incorrect parsing of SMTP server response codes
1904515 - CVE-2020-16042 chromium-browser: Uninitialized Use in V8
1908022 - CVE-2020-26971 Mozilla: Heap buffer overflow in WebGL
1908023 - CVE-2020-26973 Mozilla: CSS Sanitizer performed incorrect sanitization
1908024 - CVE-2020-26974 Mozilla: Incorrect cast of StyleGenericFlexBasis resulted in a heap use-after-free
1908025 - CVE-2020-26978 Mozilla: Internal network hosts could have been probed by a malicious webpage
1908027 - CVE-2020-35111 Mozilla: The proxy.onRequest API did not catch view-source URLs
1908029 - CVE-2020-35113 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 84 and Firefox ESR 78.6

6. Package List:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.1):

Source:
thunderbird-78.6.0-1.el8_1.src.rpm

ppc64le:
thunderbird-78.6.0-1.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-78.6.0-1.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm
thunderbird-debugsource-78.6.0-1.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm

x86_64:
thunderbird-78.6.0-1.el8_1.x86_64.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-78.6.0-1.el8_1.x86_64.rpm
thunderbird-debugsource-78.6.0-1.el8_1.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-2020-16042
  https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-26970
  https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-26971
  https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-26973
  https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-26974
  https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-26978
  https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-35111
  https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-35113
  https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

8. Contact:

The Red Hat security contact is . More contact
details at   https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

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