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RHSA-2023:5202: Red Hat Security Advisory: thunderbird security update
An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 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.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-2023:5202 - 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 8.6 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.
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 for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.6 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.6 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.6 s390x
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.6 ppc64le
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.6 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.6 aarch64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.6 ppc64le
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.6 x86_64
Fixes
- BZ - 2238431 - CVE-2023-4863 libwebp: Heap buffer overflow in WebP Codec
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.6
SRPM
thunderbird-102.15.1-1.el8_6.src.rpm
SHA-256: 6343d47274e4bc9ae62ba5dc564061da8e7f3e4a67becd6aad36b567f6ae3571
x86_64
thunderbird-102.15.1-1.el8_6.x86_64.rpm
SHA-256: 3b54581ef3b43f4731551d24385df35762389a3094827b0f2323e3e67c11fbc0
thunderbird-debuginfo-102.15.1-1.el8_6.x86_64.rpm
SHA-256: 530ffa4488b6455575dfe8bbb4b4fab78b5d02db5c30d79239fc096b0d8d81d4
thunderbird-debugsource-102.15.1-1.el8_6.x86_64.rpm
SHA-256: b619704ad8d180c027b8ac8fff12db40d54cc227b567d56e7a7627ffb3e9f516
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.6
SRPM
thunderbird-102.15.1-1.el8_6.src.rpm
SHA-256: 6343d47274e4bc9ae62ba5dc564061da8e7f3e4a67becd6aad36b567f6ae3571
x86_64
thunderbird-102.15.1-1.el8_6.x86_64.rpm
SHA-256: 3b54581ef3b43f4731551d24385df35762389a3094827b0f2323e3e67c11fbc0
thunderbird-debuginfo-102.15.1-1.el8_6.x86_64.rpm
SHA-256: 530ffa4488b6455575dfe8bbb4b4fab78b5d02db5c30d79239fc096b0d8d81d4
thunderbird-debugsource-102.15.1-1.el8_6.x86_64.rpm
SHA-256: b619704ad8d180c027b8ac8fff12db40d54cc227b567d56e7a7627ffb3e9f516
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.6
SRPM
thunderbird-102.15.1-1.el8_6.src.rpm
SHA-256: 6343d47274e4bc9ae62ba5dc564061da8e7f3e4a67becd6aad36b567f6ae3571
s390x
thunderbird-102.15.1-1.el8_6.s390x.rpm
SHA-256: 4c7df5811da6db7c0e62f6409e9319d5deade2cdbbabb6df342c0aac5aa61061
thunderbird-debuginfo-102.15.1-1.el8_6.s390x.rpm
SHA-256: 0f91831a5a5f154aa11e42fd4b197b676a02909a87e30a78f31b07d3eb9bd35b
thunderbird-debugsource-102.15.1-1.el8_6.s390x.rpm
SHA-256: 33fdf15339c75f307bba694786718da0dddfe3304c8368c899ac646e563fe73b
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.6
SRPM
thunderbird-102.15.1-1.el8_6.src.rpm
SHA-256: 6343d47274e4bc9ae62ba5dc564061da8e7f3e4a67becd6aad36b567f6ae3571
ppc64le
thunderbird-102.15.1-1.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm
SHA-256: 3243a1e5e429775dd0af8917cc564b069a7bc420b18ac8e2db684e849b862f99
thunderbird-debuginfo-102.15.1-1.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm
SHA-256: 81acffcfc3f3a5078bd063abaab9c4f9d697143c6686bc8ccbaabfa0e830bfd7
thunderbird-debugsource-102.15.1-1.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm
SHA-256: 7961045c7dcbdc1efb24d49e917b01ebc2e2a5adca1ab286493fe279f9d5f68b
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.6
SRPM
thunderbird-102.15.1-1.el8_6.src.rpm
SHA-256: 6343d47274e4bc9ae62ba5dc564061da8e7f3e4a67becd6aad36b567f6ae3571
x86_64
thunderbird-102.15.1-1.el8_6.x86_64.rpm
SHA-256: 3b54581ef3b43f4731551d24385df35762389a3094827b0f2323e3e67c11fbc0
thunderbird-debuginfo-102.15.1-1.el8_6.x86_64.rpm
SHA-256: 530ffa4488b6455575dfe8bbb4b4fab78b5d02db5c30d79239fc096b0d8d81d4
thunderbird-debugsource-102.15.1-1.el8_6.x86_64.rpm
SHA-256: b619704ad8d180c027b8ac8fff12db40d54cc227b567d56e7a7627ffb3e9f516
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.6
SRPM
thunderbird-102.15.1-1.el8_6.src.rpm
SHA-256: 6343d47274e4bc9ae62ba5dc564061da8e7f3e4a67becd6aad36b567f6ae3571
aarch64
thunderbird-102.15.1-1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm
SHA-256: 94383e3253866c65d939cd9673cce6b21d161d915a59fc3277b72cc37fb1d1ab
thunderbird-debuginfo-102.15.1-1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm
SHA-256: edd9922b0834134bcabd256ec1ef80940b3af040393048f2d650a54a3ab46b3a
thunderbird-debugsource-102.15.1-1.el8_6.aarch64.rpm
SHA-256: 2523059f40a582e3014e43d327a884b5731ca495b271f88713e2c797f9149a93
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.6
SRPM
thunderbird-102.15.1-1.el8_6.src.rpm
SHA-256: 6343d47274e4bc9ae62ba5dc564061da8e7f3e4a67becd6aad36b567f6ae3571
ppc64le
thunderbird-102.15.1-1.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm
SHA-256: 3243a1e5e429775dd0af8917cc564b069a7bc420b18ac8e2db684e849b862f99
thunderbird-debuginfo-102.15.1-1.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm
SHA-256: 81acffcfc3f3a5078bd063abaab9c4f9d697143c6686bc8ccbaabfa0e830bfd7
thunderbird-debugsource-102.15.1-1.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm
SHA-256: 7961045c7dcbdc1efb24d49e917b01ebc2e2a5adca1ab286493fe279f9d5f68b
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.6
SRPM
thunderbird-102.15.1-1.el8_6.src.rpm
SHA-256: 6343d47274e4bc9ae62ba5dc564061da8e7f3e4a67becd6aad36b567f6ae3571
x86_64
thunderbird-102.15.1-1.el8_6.x86_64.rpm
SHA-256: 3b54581ef3b43f4731551d24385df35762389a3094827b0f2323e3e67c11fbc0
thunderbird-debuginfo-102.15.1-1.el8_6.x86_64.rpm
SHA-256: 530ffa4488b6455575dfe8bbb4b4fab78b5d02db5c30d79239fc096b0d8d81d4
thunderbird-debugsource-102.15.1-1.el8_6.x86_64.rpm
SHA-256: b619704ad8d180c027b8ac8fff12db40d54cc227b567d56e7a7627ffb3e9f516
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