RHEL 8 : thunderbird (RHSA-2022:4770)

high Nessus Plugin ID 161635

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-2022:4770 advisory.

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.

This update upgrades Thunderbird to version 91.9.1.

Security Fix(es):

* Mozilla: Untrusted input used in JavaScript object indexing, leading to prototype pollution (CVE-2022-1529)

* Mozilla: Prototype pollution in Top-Level Await implementation (CVE-2022-1802)

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-2022:4770.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?2b8b34b0

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:4770

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2089217

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2089218

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 161635

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-4770.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/27/2022

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: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-1802

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_e4s:8.1

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: 5/27/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/20/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-1529, CVE-2022-1802

CWE: 843

IAVA: 2022-A-0217-S

RHSA: 2022:4770