RHEL 8 : thunderbird (RHSA-2022:0131)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 156737

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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-2022:0131 advisory.

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.

This update upgrades Thunderbird to version 91.5.0.

Security Fix(es):

* Mozilla: Iframe sandbox bypass with XSLT (CVE-2021-4140)

* Mozilla: Race condition when playing audio files (CVE-2022-22737)

* Mozilla: Heap-buffer-overflow in blendGaussianBlur (CVE-2022-22738)

* Mozilla: Use-after-free of ChannelEventQueue::mOwner (CVE-2022-22740)

* Mozilla: Browser window spoof using fullscreen mode (CVE-2022-22741)

* Mozilla: Out-of-bounds memory access when inserting text in edit mode (CVE-2022-22742)

* Mozilla: Browser window spoof using fullscreen mode (CVE-2022-22743)

* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 96 and Firefox ESR 91.5 (CVE-2022-22751)

* Mozilla: Leaking cross-origin URLs through securitypolicyviolation event (CVE-2022-22745)

* Mozilla: Spoofed origin on external protocol launch dialog (CVE-2022-22748)

* Mozilla: Missing throttling on external protocol launch dialog (CVE-2022-22739)

* Mozilla: Crash when handling empty pkcs7 sequence (CVE-2022-22747)

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-2022:0131.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 156737

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-0131.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 1/13/2022

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-22751

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 9

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-4140

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:thunderbird, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.1

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: 1/12/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/11/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-4140, CVE-2022-22737, CVE-2022-22738, CVE-2022-22739, CVE-2022-22740, CVE-2022-22741, CVE-2022-22742, CVE-2022-22743, CVE-2022-22745, CVE-2022-22747, CVE-2022-22748, CVE-2022-22751

CWE: 1021, 120, 416, 476, 829

IAVA: 2022-A-0017-S

RHSA: 2022:0131

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