RHSA-2021:0661HighCVSS 8.8

Red Hat Security Advisory: thunderbird security update

Published
February 24, 2021
Last Modified
November 6, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (4)

CVE-2021-23978 →CVE-2021-23968 →CVE-2021-23969 →CVE-2021-23973 →

📋 Description

CVE-2021-23968 — Mozilla: Content Security Policy violation report could have contained the destination of a redirect CVE-2021-23969 — Mozilla: Content Security Policy violation report could have contained the destination of a redirect CVE-2021-23973 — Mozilla: MediaError message property could have leaked information about cross-origin resources CVE-2021-23978 — Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 86 and Firefox ESR 78.8

🎯 Affected products14

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • thunderbird-0:78.8.0-1.el7_9.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7)
  • thunderbird-0:78.8.0-1.el7_9.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • thunderbird-0:78.8.0-1.el7_9.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7)
  • thunderbird-0:78.8.0-1.el7_9.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • thunderbird-0:78.8.0-1.el7_9.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • thunderbird-0:78.8.0-1.el7_9.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7)
  • thunderbird-0:78.8.0-1.el7_9.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • thunderbird-debuginfo-0:78.8.0-1.el7_9.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7)
  • thunderbird-debuginfo-0:78.8.0-1.el7_9.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • thunderbird-debuginfo-0:78.8.0-1.el7_9.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7)
  • thunderbird-debuginfo-0:78.8.0-1.el7_9.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)

✅ Remediation

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.

🔗 References (7)