RHEL 8 : thunderbird (RHSA-2019:1623)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 126319

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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 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:1623 advisory.

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.

This update upgrades Thunderbird to version 60.7.2.

Security Fix(es):

* Mozilla: Type confusion in Array.pop (CVE-2019-11707)

* thunderbird: Stack buffer overflow in icalrecur_add_bydayrules in icalrecur.c (CVE-2019-11705)

* Mozilla: Sandbox escape using Prompt:Open (CVE-2019-11708)

* thunderbird: Heap buffer over read in icalparser.c parser_get_next_char (CVE-2019-11703)

* thunderbird: Heap buffer overflow in icalmemory_strdup_and_dequote function in icalvalue.c (CVE-2019-11704)

* thunderbird: Type confusion in icaltimezone_get_vtimezone_properties function in icalproperty.c (CVE-2019-11706)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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-2019:1623.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 126319

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-1623.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 6/28/2019

Updated: 11/6/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.1

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-11708

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 9.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:thunderbird, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/27/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/23/2019

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 6/13/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-11703, CVE-2019-11704, CVE-2019-11705, CVE-2019-11706, CVE-2019-11707, CVE-2019-11708

CWE: 121, 122, 270, 843

RHSA: 2019:1623

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