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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2014.2270
Important: thunderbird security update
3 December 2014
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: thunderbird
Publisher: Red Hat
Operating System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS/Desktop 5
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS/Desktop 6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6
Impact/Access: Execute Arbitrary Code/Commands -- Remote with User Interaction
Denial of Service -- Remote with User Interaction
Reduced Security -- Remote with User Interaction
Resolution: Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names: CVE-2014-1594 CVE-2014-1593 CVE-2014-1592
CVE-2014-1590 CVE-2014-1587
Original Bulletin:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1924.html
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Important: thunderbird security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2014:1924-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1924.html
Issue date: 2014-12-02
CVE Names: CVE-2014-1587 CVE-2014-1590 CVE-2014-1592
CVE-2014-1593 CVE-2014-1594
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1. Summary:
An updated thunderbird package that fixes multiple security issues is now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7.
Red Hat Product Security 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:
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-2014-1587, CVE-2014-1590, CVE-2014-1592, CVE-2014-1593)
A flaw was found in the Alarm API, which could allow applications to
schedule actions to be run in the future. A malicious web application could
use this flaw to bypass the same-origin policy. (CVE-2014-1594)
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.
This update disables SSL 3.0 support by default in Thunderbird. Details on
how to re-enable SSL 3.0 support are available at:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/1284233
Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues.
Upstream acknowledges Gary Kwong, Randell Jesup, Nils Ohlmeier, Jesse
Ruderman, Max Jonas Werner, Joe Vennix, Berend-Jan Wever, Abhishek Arya,
and Boris Zbarsky as the original reporters of these issues.
For technical details regarding these flaws, refer to the Mozilla security
advisories for Thunderbird 31.3.0. 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 31.3.0, 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/articles/11258
5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
1169201 - CVE-2014-1587 Mozilla: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:31.3) (MFSA 2014-83)
1169206 - CVE-2014-1590 Mozilla: XMLHttpRequest crashes with some input streams (MFSA 2014-85)
1169208 - CVE-2014-1592 Mozilla: Use-after-free during HTML5 parsing (MFSA 2014-87)
1169209 - CVE-2014-1593 Mozilla: Buffer overflow while parsing media content (MFSA 2014-88)
1169210 - CVE-2014-1594 Mozilla: Bad casting from the BasicThebesLayer to BasicContainerLayer (MFSA 2014-89)
6. Package List:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client):
Source:
thunderbird-31.3.0-1.el5_11.src.rpm
i386:
thunderbird-31.3.0-1.el5_11.i386.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-31.3.0-1.el5_11.i386.rpm
x86_64:
thunderbird-31.3.0-1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-31.3.0-1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6):
Source:
thunderbird-31.3.0-1.el6_6.src.rpm
i386:
thunderbird-31.3.0-1.el6_6.i686.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-31.3.0-1.el6_6.i686.rpm
x86_64:
thunderbird-31.3.0-1.el6_6.x86_64.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-31.3.0-1.el6_6.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6):
Source:
thunderbird-31.3.0-1.el6_6.src.rpm
i386:
thunderbird-31.3.0-1.el6_6.i686.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-31.3.0-1.el6_6.i686.rpm
ppc64:
thunderbird-31.3.0-1.el6_6.ppc64.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-31.3.0-1.el6_6.ppc64.rpm
s390x:
thunderbird-31.3.0-1.el6_6.s390x.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-31.3.0-1.el6_6.s390x.rpm
x86_64:
thunderbird-31.3.0-1.el6_6.x86_64.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-31.3.0-1.el6_6.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6):
Source:
thunderbird-31.3.0-1.el6_6.src.rpm
i386:
thunderbird-31.3.0-1.el6_6.i686.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-31.3.0-1.el6_6.i686.rpm
x86_64:
thunderbird-31.3.0-1.el6_6.x86_64.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-31.3.0-1.el6_6.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-2014-1587
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-1590
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-1592
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-1593
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-1594
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/thunderbird.html#thunderbird31.3
https://access.redhat.com/articles/1284233
8. Contact:
The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
Copyright 2014 Red Hat, Inc.
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