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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2015.0097
Important: thunderbird security update
14 January 2015
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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 Server 5
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS/Desktop 6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6
Impact/Access: Execute Arbitrary Code/Commands -- Remote with User Interaction
Cross-site Request Forgery -- Remote with User Interaction
Denial of Service -- Remote with User Interaction
Resolution: Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names: CVE-2014-8639 CVE-2014-8638 CVE-2014-8634
Reference: ESB-2015.0096
Original Bulletin:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0047.html
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Important: thunderbird security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2015:0047-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0047.html
Issue date: 2015-01-13
CVE Names: CVE-2014-8634 CVE-2014-8638 CVE-2014-8639
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1. Summary:
An updated thunderbird package that fixes three security issues is now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.
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:
RHEL Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server) - i386, 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 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.
Two flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page
containing malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially,
execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox.
(CVE-2014-8634, CVE-2014-8639)
It was found that the Beacon interface implementation in Thunderbird did
not follow the Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) specification. A web
page containing malicious content could allow a remote attacker to conduct
a Cross-Site Request Forgery (XSRF) attack. (CVE-2014-8638)
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.
Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues.
Upstream acknowledges Christian Holler, Patrick McManus, Muneaki Nishimura,
and Xiaofeng Zheng as the original reporters of these issues.
For technical details regarding these flaws, refer to the Mozilla security
advisories for Thunderbird 31.4.0. 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 31.4.0, 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/):
1180962 - CVE-2014-8634 Mozilla: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:31.4) (MFSA 2015-01)
1180966 - CVE-2014-8638 Mozilla: sendBeacon requests lack an Origin header (MFSA 2015-03)
1180967 - CVE-2014-8639 Mozilla: Cookie injection through Proxy Authenticate responses (MFSA 2015-04)
6. Package List:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client):
Source:
thunderbird-31.4.0-1.el5_11.src.rpm
i386:
thunderbird-31.4.0-1.el5_11.i386.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-31.4.0-1.el5_11.i386.rpm
x86_64:
thunderbird-31.4.0-1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-31.4.0-1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
RHEL Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server):
Source:
thunderbird-31.4.0-1.el5_11.src.rpm
i386:
thunderbird-31.4.0-1.el5_11.i386.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-31.4.0-1.el5_11.i386.rpm
x86_64:
thunderbird-31.4.0-1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-31.4.0-1.el5_11.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6):
Source:
thunderbird-31.4.0-1.el6_6.src.rpm
i386:
thunderbird-31.4.0-1.el6_6.i686.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-31.4.0-1.el6_6.i686.rpm
x86_64:
thunderbird-31.4.0-1.el6_6.x86_64.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-31.4.0-1.el6_6.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6):
Source:
thunderbird-31.4.0-1.el6_6.src.rpm
i386:
thunderbird-31.4.0-1.el6_6.i686.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-31.4.0-1.el6_6.i686.rpm
ppc64:
thunderbird-31.4.0-1.el6_6.ppc64.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-31.4.0-1.el6_6.ppc64.rpm
s390x:
thunderbird-31.4.0-1.el6_6.s390x.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-31.4.0-1.el6_6.s390x.rpm
x86_64:
thunderbird-31.4.0-1.el6_6.x86_64.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-31.4.0-1.el6_6.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6):
Source:
thunderbird-31.4.0-1.el6_6.src.rpm
i386:
thunderbird-31.4.0-1.el6_6.i686.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-31.4.0-1.el6_6.i686.rpm
x86_64:
thunderbird-31.4.0-1.el6_6.x86_64.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-31.4.0-1.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-2014-8634
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8638
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8639
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/thunderbird.html#thunderbird31.4
8. Contact:
The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
Copyright 2015 Red Hat, Inc.
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