QID 239510

Date Published: 2021-07-29

QID 239510: Red Hat Update for thunderbird (RHSA-2021:2881)

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.This update upgrades Thunderbird to version 78.12.0.

Security Fix(es): Mozilla: IMAP server responses sent by a MITM prior to STARTTLS could be processed (CVE-2021-29969) Mozilla: Use-after-free in accessibility features of a document (CVE-2021-29970) Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 90 and Firefox ESR 78.12 (CVE-2021-29976) chromium-browser: Out of bounds write in ANGLE (CVE-2021-30547)

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

Note: The preceding description block is extracted directly from the security advisory. Using automation, we have attempted to clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

On successful exploitation, it could allow an attacker to execute code.

  • CVSS V3 rated as Critical - 8.8 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as High - 6.8 severity.
  • Solution
    Upgrade to the latest packages which contain a patch. Refer to Applying Package Updates to RHEL system for details.

    Refer to Red Hat security advisory RHSA-2021:2881 to address this issue and obtain more information.

    Vendor References

    CVEs related to QID 239510

    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    RHSA-2021:2881 Red Hat Enterprise Linux URL Logo access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:2881?language=en