RHEL 7 : thunderbird (RHSA-2021:1350)

high Nessus Plugin ID 148981

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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-2021:1350 advisory.

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.

This update upgrades Thunderbird to version 78.10.0.

Security Fix(es):

* Mozilla: Out of bound write due to lazy initialization (CVE-2021-23994)

* Mozilla: Use-after-free in Responsive Design Mode (CVE-2021-23995)

* Mozilla: More internal network hosts could have been probed by a malicious webpage (CVE-2021-23961)

* Mozilla: Secure Lock icon could have been spoofed (CVE-2021-23998)

* Mozilla: Blob URLs may have been granted additional privileges (CVE-2021-23999)

* Mozilla: Arbitrary FTP command execution on FTP servers using an encoded URL (CVE-2021-24002)

* Mozilla: Incorrect size computation in WebAssembly JIT could lead to null-reads (CVE-2021-29945)

* Mozilla: Port blocking could be bypassed (CVE-2021-29946)

* Mozilla: Race condition when reading from disk while verifying signatures (CVE-2021-29948)

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-2021:1350.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 148981

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-1350.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 4/26/2021

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

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-2021-29946

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: 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: 4/26/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/26/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-23961, CVE-2021-23994, CVE-2021-23995, CVE-2021-23998, CVE-2021-23999, CVE-2021-24002, CVE-2021-29945, CVE-2021-29946, CVE-2021-29948

CWE: 190, 200, 281, 367, 416, 476, 787, 88

IAVA: 2021-A-0051-S, 2021-A-0185-S

RHSA: 2021:1350

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