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CentOS 8 : thunderbird (CESA-2020:0577)

high Nessus Plugin ID 145993

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the CESA-2020:0577 advisory.

 - Mozilla: Message ID calculation was based on uninitialized data (CVE-2020-6792)

 - Mozilla: Out-of-bounds read when processing certain email messages (CVE-2020-6793)

 - Mozilla: Setting a master password post-Thunderbird 52 does not delete unencrypted previously stored passwords (CVE-2020-6794)

 - Mozilla: Crash processing S/MIME messages with multiple signatures (CVE-2020-6795)

 - Mozilla: Incorrect parsing of template tag could result in JavaScript injection (CVE-2020-6798)

 - Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 73 and Firefox ESR 68.5 (CVE-2020-6800)

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 affected thunderbird package.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0577

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 145993

File Name: centos8_RHSA-2020-0577.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/1/2021

Updated: 1/24/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-6800

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:thunderbird

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/24/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/11/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-6792, CVE-2020-6793, CVE-2020-6794, CVE-2020-6795, CVE-2020-6798, CVE-2020-6800

RHSA: 2020:0577