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[RHSA-2013:0697-01] Important: thunderbird security update

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Red Hat Security Advisory

 

Synopsis: Important: thunderbird security update

Advisory ID: RHSA-2013:0697-01

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Advisory URL: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0697.html

Issue date: 2013-04-02

CVE Names: CVE-2013-0788 CVE-2013-0793 CVE-2013-0795

CVE-2013-0796 CVE-2013-0800

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1. Summary:

 

An updated thunderbird package that fixes several security issues is now

available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

 

The Red Hat Security Response Team 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.

 

Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed content. Malicious

content could cause Thunderbird to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary

code with the privileges of the user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2013-0788)

 

A flaw was found in the way Same Origin Wrappers were implemented in

Thunderbird. Malicious content could use this flaw to bypass the

same-origin policy and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the

user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2013-0795)

 

A flaw was found in the embedded WebGL library in Thunderbird. Malicious

content could cause Thunderbird to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary

code with the privileges of the user running Thunderbird. Note: This issue

only affected systems using the Intel Mesa graphics drivers.

(CVE-2013-0796)

 

An out-of-bounds write flaw was found in the embedded Cairo library in

Thunderbird. Malicious content could cause Thunderbird to crash or,

potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running

Thunderbird. (CVE-2013-0800)

 

A flaw was found in the way Thunderbird handled the JavaScript history

functions. Malicious content could cause a page to be displayed that

has a baseURI pointing to a different site, allowing cross-site scripting

(XSS) and phishing attacks. (CVE-2013-0793)

 

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues.

Upstream acknowledges Olli Pettay, Jesse Ruderman, Boris Zbarsky, Christian

Holler, Milan Sreckovic, Joe Drew, Cody Crews, miaubiz, Abhishek Arya, and

Mariusz Mlynski as the original reporters of these issues.

 

Note: All issues except CVE-2013-0800 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.

 

All Thunderbird users should upgrade to this updated package, which

contains Thunderbird version 17.0.5 ESR, 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/knowledge/articles/11258

 

5. Bugs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

 

946927 - CVE-2013-0788 Mozilla: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:17.0.5) (MFSA 2013-30)

946929 - CVE-2013-0800 Mozilla: Out-of-bounds write in Cairo library (MFSA 2013-31)

946931 - CVE-2013-0796 Mozilla: WebGL crash with Mesa graphics driver on Linux (MFSA 2013-35)

946932 - CVE-2013-0795 Mozilla: Bypass of SOW protections allows cloning of protected nodes (MFSA 2013-36)

946935 - CVE-2013-0793 Mozilla: Cross-site scripting (XSS) using timed history navigations (MFSA 2013-38)

 

6. Package List:

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client):

 

Source:

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Client/en/os/SRPMS/thunderbird-17.0.5-1.el5_9.src.rpm

 

i386:

thunderbird-17.0.5-1.el5_9.i386.rpm

thunderbird-debuginfo-17.0.5-1.el5_9.i386.rpm

 

x86_64:

thunderbird-17.0.5-1.el5_9.x86_64.rpm

thunderbird-debuginfo-17.0.5-1.el5_9.x86_64.rpm

 

RHEL Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server) :

 

Source:

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Server/en/os/SRPMS/thunderbird-17.0.5-1.el5_9.src.rpm

 

i386:

thunderbird-17.0.5-1.el5_9.i386.rpm

thunderbird-debuginfo-17.0.5-1.el5_9.i386.rpm

 

x86_64:

thunderbird-17.0.5-1.el5_9.x86_64.rpm

thunderbird-debuginfo-17.0.5-1.el5_9.x86_64.rpm

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6):

 

Source:

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Client/en/os/SRPMS/thunderbird-17.0.5-1.el6_4.src.rpm

 

i386:

thunderbird-17.0.5-1.el6_4.i686.rpm

thunderbird-debuginfo-17.0.5-1.el6_4.i686.rpm

 

x86_64:

thunderbird-17.0.5-1.el6_4.x86_64.rpm

thunderbird-debuginfo-17.0.5-1.el6_4.x86_64.rpm

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6):

 

Source:

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Server/en/os/SRPMS/thunderbird-17.0.5-1.el6_4.src.rpm

 

i386:

thunderbird-17.0.5-1.el6_4.i686.rpm

thunderbird-debuginfo-17.0.5-1.el6_4.i686.rpm

 

ppc64:

thunderbird-17.0.5-1.el6_4.ppc64.rpm

thunderbird-debuginfo-17.0.5-1.el6_4.ppc64.rpm

 

s390x:

thunderbird-17.0.5-1.el6_4.s390x.rpm

thunderbird-debuginfo-17.0.5-1.el6_4.s390x.rpm

 

x86_64:

thunderbird-17.0.5-1.el6_4.x86_64.rpm

thunderbird-debuginfo-17.0.5-1.el6_4.x86_64.rpm

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6):

 

Source:

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Workstation/en/os/SRPMS/thunderbird-17.0.5-1.el6_4.src.rpm

 

i386:

thunderbird-17.0.5-1.el6_4.i686.rpm

thunderbird-debuginfo-17.0.5-1.el6_4.i686.rpm

 

x86_64:

thunderbird-17.0.5-1.el6_4.x86_64.rpm

thunderbird-debuginfo-17.0.5-1.el6_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/#package

 

7. References:

 

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2013-0788.html

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2013-0793.html

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2013-0795.html

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2013-0796.html

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2013-0800.html

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/

 

Copyright 2013 Red Hat, Inc.

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