RHEL 8 : thunderbird (RHSA-2022:1305)

high Nessus Plugin ID 159649

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-2022:1305 advisory.

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.

This update upgrades Thunderbird to version 91.8.0.

Security Fix(es):

* Mozilla: Use-after-free in NSSToken objects (CVE-2022-1097)

* Mozilla: Out of bounds write due to unexpected WebAuthN Extensions (CVE-2022-28281)

* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 99 and Firefox ESR 91.8 (CVE-2022-28289)

* Mozilla: Use-after-free after VR Process destruction (CVE-2022-1196)

* Mozilla: OpenPGP revocation information was ignored (CVE-2022-1197)

* Mozilla: Use-after-free in DocumentL10n::TranslateDocument (CVE-2022-28282)

* Mozilla: Incorrect AliasSet used in JIT Codegen (CVE-2022-28285)

* Mozilla: Denial of Service via complex regular expressions (CVE-2022-24713)

* Mozilla: iframe contents could be rendered outside the border (CVE-2022-28286)

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-2022:1305.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2072561

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2072562

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2072563

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2072564

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2072565

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2072566

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2072963

http://www.nessus.org/u?42bbf58d

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1305

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2072559

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2072560

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 159649

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-1305.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/12/2022

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: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-24713

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-28289

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:thunderbird

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: 4/11/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/8/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-1097, CVE-2022-1196, CVE-2022-1197, CVE-2022-24713, CVE-2022-28281, CVE-2022-28282, CVE-2022-28285, CVE-2022-28286, CVE-2022-28289

CWE: 1021, 120, 125, 295, 400, 416, 787

IAVA: 2022-A-0134-S

RHSA: 2022:1305