RHEL 7 : thunderbird (RHSA-2018:2252)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 111323

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for thunderbird.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:2252 advisory.

- Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 61, Firefox ESR 60.1, and Firefox ESR 52.9 (CVE-2018-5188)

- Mozilla: Buffer overflow using computed size of canvas element (CVE-2018-12359)

- Mozilla: Use-after-free using focus() (CVE-2018-12360)

- Mozilla: Integer overflow in SSSE3 scaler (CVE-2018-12362)

- Mozilla: Use-after-free when appending DOM nodes (CVE-2018-12363)

- Mozilla: CSRF attacks through 307 redirects and NPAPI plugins (CVE-2018-12364)

- Mozilla: Compromised IPC child process can list local filenames (CVE-2018-12365)

- Mozilla: Invalid data handling during QCMS transformations (CVE-2018-12366)

- thunderbird: S/MIME and PGP decryption oracles can be built with HTML emails (CVE-2018-12372)

- thunderbird: S/MIME plaintext can be leaked through HTML reply/forward (CVE-2018-12373)

- thunderbird: Using form to exfiltrate encrypted mail part by pressing enter in form field (CVE-2018-12374)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL thunderbird package based on the guidance in RHSA-2018:2252.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 111323

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-2252.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 7/25/2018

Updated: 9/3/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-5188

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:thunderbird, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/24/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/18/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-12359, CVE-2018-12360, CVE-2018-12362, CVE-2018-12363, CVE-2018-12364, CVE-2018-12365, CVE-2018-12366, CVE-2018-12372, CVE-2018-12373, CVE-2018-12374, CVE-2018-5188

CWE: 120, 125, 201, 212, 356, 416, 552, 829

RHSA: 2018:2252

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