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RHSA-2023:5191: Red Hat Security Advisory: thunderbird security update
An update for thunderbird is now available for 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.This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original.
Related CVEs:
- CVE-2023-4863: A heap-based buffer flaw was found in the way libwebp, a library used to process “WebP” image format data, processes certain specially formatted WebP images. An attacker could use this flaw to crash or execute remotely arbitrary code in an application such as a web browser compiled with this library.
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Issued:
2023-09-18
Updated:
2023-09-18
RHSA-2023:5191 - Security Advisory
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Synopsis
Important: thunderbird security update
Type/Severity
Security Advisory: Important
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Topic
An update for thunderbird is now available for 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.
Description
Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.
This update upgrades Thunderbird to version 102.15.1.
Security Fix(es):
- libwebp: Heap buffer overflow in WebP Codec (CVE-2023-4863)
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.
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.
Affected Products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
Fixes
- BZ - 2238431 - CVE-2023-4863 libwebp: Heap buffer overflow in WebP Codec
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7
SRPM
thunderbird-102.15.1-1.el7_9.src.rpm
SHA-256: 5b71fbbd272e883952378bee4f246b6407c680afe3f24b6ab6a217dcb61e8e87
x86_64
thunderbird-102.15.1-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm
SHA-256: d615556ea5c2fe4293270bbcade0e57fc3bcba8f05c489e593ab50e46f9c578c
thunderbird-debuginfo-102.15.1-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm
SHA-256: 602b472a6df0d4ca84b88f42c8d1906151133888b21d2ae37ab46a1dd054ffd6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7
SRPM
thunderbird-102.15.1-1.el7_9.src.rpm
SHA-256: 5b71fbbd272e883952378bee4f246b6407c680afe3f24b6ab6a217dcb61e8e87
x86_64
thunderbird-102.15.1-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm
SHA-256: d615556ea5c2fe4293270bbcade0e57fc3bcba8f05c489e593ab50e46f9c578c
thunderbird-debuginfo-102.15.1-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm
SHA-256: 602b472a6df0d4ca84b88f42c8d1906151133888b21d2ae37ab46a1dd054ffd6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7
SRPM
thunderbird-102.15.1-1.el7_9.src.rpm
SHA-256: 5b71fbbd272e883952378bee4f246b6407c680afe3f24b6ab6a217dcb61e8e87
x86_64
thunderbird-102.15.1-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm
SHA-256: d615556ea5c2fe4293270bbcade0e57fc3bcba8f05c489e593ab50e46f9c578c
thunderbird-debuginfo-102.15.1-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm
SHA-256: 602b472a6df0d4ca84b88f42c8d1906151133888b21d2ae37ab46a1dd054ffd6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7
SRPM
thunderbird-102.15.1-1.el7_9.src.rpm
SHA-256: 5b71fbbd272e883952378bee4f246b6407c680afe3f24b6ab6a217dcb61e8e87
ppc64le
thunderbird-102.15.1-1.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm
SHA-256: 3a5b7cf6a2ef7a7c2aaf8e426fa62d99af346a6ea18d45b6f7a5b06f6816a661
thunderbird-debuginfo-102.15.1-1.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm
SHA-256: 090af574b87033009ecab410f4d610338ae7a80afa733a9682b2179532d1bcba
The Red Hat security contact is [email protected]. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
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