RHEL 7 : thunderbird (RHSA-2020:0905)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 134831

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-2020:0905 advisory.

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.

This update upgrades Thunderbird to version 68.6.0.

Security Fix(es):

* Mozilla: Use-after-free when removing data about origins (CVE-2020-6805)

* Mozilla: BodyStream::OnInputStreamReady was missing protections against state confusion (CVE-2020-6806)

* Mozilla: Use-after-free in cubeb during stream destruction (CVE-2020-6807)

* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 74 and Firefox ESR 68.6 (CVE-2020-6814)

* Mozilla: Out of bounds reads in sctp_load_addresses_from_init (CVE-2019-20503)

* Mozilla: Devtools' 'Copy as cURL' feature did not fully escape website-controlled data, potentially leading to command injection (CVE-2020-6811)

* Mozilla: The names of AirPods with personally identifiable information were exposed to websites with camera or microphone permission (CVE-2020-6812)

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-2020:0905.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?d33ba230

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0905

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1812199

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1812200

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1812201

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1812202

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1812203

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1812204

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1812205

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 134831

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-0905.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/23/2020

Updated: 11/7/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless 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: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-6814

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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:P/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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/19/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/6/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-20503, CVE-2020-6805, CVE-2020-6806, CVE-2020-6807, CVE-2020-6811, CVE-2020-6812, CVE-2020-6814

CWE: 120, 125, 200, 416, 78

IAVA: 2020-A-0097-S

RHSA: 2020:0905