RHSA-2023:6196HighCVSS 9.8

Red Hat Security Advisory: thunderbird security update

Published
October 30, 2023
Last Modified
November 5, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (7)

CVE-2023-5730 →CVE-2023-5732 →CVE-2023-44488 →CVE-2023-5721 →CVE-2023-5724 →CVE-2023-5725 →CVE-2023-5728 →

📋 Description

CVE-2023-5721 — Mozilla: Queued up rendering could have allowed websites to clickjack CVE-2023-5724 — Mozilla: Large WebGL draw could have led to a crash CVE-2023-5725 — Mozilla: WebExtensions could open arbitrary URLs CVE-2023-5728 — Mozilla: Improper object tracking during GC in the JavaScript engine could have led to a crash. CVE-2023-5730 — Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 119, Firefox ESR 115.4, and Thunderbird 115.4 CVE-2023-5732 — Mozilla: Address bar spoofing via bidirectional characters CVE-2023-44488 — libvpx: crash related to VP9 encoding in libvpx

🎯 Affected products24

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream AUS (v.8.4)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.8.4)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream TUS (v.8.4)
  • thunderbird-0:115.4.1-1.el8_4.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.8.4)
  • thunderbird-0:115.4.1-1.el8_4.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.8.4)
  • thunderbird-0:115.4.1-1.el8_4.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.8.4)
  • thunderbird-0:115.4.1-1.el8_4.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream AUS (v.8.4)
  • thunderbird-0:115.4.1-1.el8_4.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.8.4)
  • thunderbird-0:115.4.1-1.el8_4.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream TUS (v.8.4)
  • thunderbird-0:115.4.1-1.el8_4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream AUS (v.8.4)
  • thunderbird-0:115.4.1-1.el8_4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.8.4)
  • thunderbird-0:115.4.1-1.el8_4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream TUS (v.8.4)
  • thunderbird-debuginfo-0:115.4.1-1.el8_4.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.8.4)
  • thunderbird-debuginfo-0:115.4.1-1.el8_4.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.8.4)
  • thunderbird-debuginfo-0:115.4.1-1.el8_4.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.8.4)
  • thunderbird-debuginfo-0:115.4.1-1.el8_4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream AUS (v.8.4)
  • thunderbird-debuginfo-0:115.4.1-1.el8_4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.8.4)
  • thunderbird-debuginfo-0:115.4.1-1.el8_4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream TUS (v.8.4)
  • thunderbird-debugsource-0:115.4.1-1.el8_4.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.8.4)
  • thunderbird-debugsource-0:115.4.1-1.el8_4.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.8.4)
  • thunderbird-debugsource-0:115.4.1-1.el8_4.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.8.4)
  • thunderbird-debugsource-0:115.4.1-1.el8_4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream AUS (v.8.4)
  • thunderbird-debugsource-0:115.4.1-1.el8_4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.8.4)
  • thunderbird-debugsource-0:115.4.1-1.el8_4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream TUS (v.8.4)

✅ 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. Workaround: Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options don't meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.

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