RHEL 8 : thunderbird (RHSA-2020:5399)

high Nessus Plugin ID 144202

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for thunderbird.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:5399 advisory.

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.

This update upgrades Thunderbird to version 78.5.1.

Security Fix(es):

* Mozilla: Stack overflow due to incorrect parsing of SMTP server response codes (CVE-2020-26970)

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 this issue 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-2020:5399.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?3d717151

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5399

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1903443

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 144202

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-5399.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/14/2020

Updated: 11/5/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 6.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-26970

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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:rhel_eus:8.2

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: 12/14/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/19/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-26970

CWE: 121

IAVA: 2020-A-0537-S

RHSA: 2020:5399