A thunderbird security update has been released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

RHSA-2021:3155-01: Important: thunderbird security update

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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Important: thunderbird security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:3155-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL:   https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3155
Issue date: 2021-08-16
CVE Names: CVE-2021-29980 CVE-2021-29984 CVE-2021-29985
CVE-2021-29986 CVE-2021-29988 CVE-2021-29989
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1. Summary:

An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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 (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

3. Description:

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.

This update upgrades Thunderbird to version 78.13.0.

Security Fix(es):

* Mozilla: Uninitialized memory in a canvas object could have led to memory
corruption (CVE-2021-29980)

* Mozilla: Incorrect instruction reordering during JIT optimization
(CVE-2021-29984)

* Mozilla: Race condition when resolving DNS names could have led to memory
corruption (CVE-2021-29986)

* Mozilla: Memory corruption as a result of incorrect style treatment
(CVE-2021-29988)

* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Thunderbird 78.13 (CVE-2021-29989)

* Mozilla: Use-after-free media channels (CVE-2021-29985)

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/):

1992417 - CVE-2021-29986 Mozilla: Race condition when resolving DNS names could have led to memory corruption
1992419 - CVE-2021-29988 Mozilla: Memory corruption as a result of incorrect style treatment
1992420 - CVE-2021-29984 Mozilla: Incorrect instruction reordering during JIT optimization
1992421 - CVE-2021-29980 Mozilla: Uninitialized memory in a canvas object could have led to memory corruption
1992422 - CVE-2021-29985 Mozilla: Use-after-free media channels
1992423 - CVE-2021-29989 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Thunderbird 78.13

6. Package List:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):

Source:
thunderbird-78.13.0-1.el8_4.src.rpm

aarch64:
thunderbird-78.13.0-1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-78.13.0-1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm
thunderbird-debugsource-78.13.0-1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm

ppc64le:
thunderbird-78.13.0-1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-78.13.0-1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
thunderbird-debugsource-78.13.0-1.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm

s390x:
thunderbird-78.13.0-1.el8_4.s390x.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-78.13.0-1.el8_4.s390x.rpm
thunderbird-debugsource-78.13.0-1.el8_4.s390x.rpm

x86_64:
thunderbird-78.13.0-1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-78.13.0-1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
thunderbird-debugsource-78.13.0-1.el8_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-2021-29980
  https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-29984
  https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-29985
  https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-29986
  https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-29988
  https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-29989
  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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