RHEL 8 : thunderbird (RHSA-2022:7181)

high Nessus Plugin ID 166484

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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-2022:7181 advisory.

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.

This update upgrades Thunderbird to version 102.4.0.

Security Fix(es):

* Mozilla: Matrix SDK bundled with Thunderbird vulnerable to an impersonation attack by malicious server administrators (CVE-2022-39249)

* Mozilla: Matrix SDK bundled with Thunderbird vulnerable to a device verification attack (CVE-2022-39250)

* Mozilla: Matrix SDK bundled with Thunderbird vulnerable to an impersonation attack (CVE-2022-39251)

* Mozilla: Same-origin policy violation could have leaked cross-origin URLs (CVE-2022-42927)

* Mozilla: Memory Corruption in JS Engine (CVE-2022-42928)

* Mozilla: Matrix SDK bundled with Thunderbird vulnerable to a data corruption issue (CVE-2022-39236)

* Mozilla: Denial of Service via window.print (CVE-2022-42929)

* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 102.4 and Thunderbird 102.4 (CVE-2022-42932)

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-2022:7181.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 166484

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-7181.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 10/25/2022

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: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

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-2022-42932

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: 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 Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/25/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/28/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-39236, CVE-2022-39249, CVE-2022-39250, CVE-2022-39251, CVE-2022-42927, CVE-2022-42928, CVE-2022-42929, CVE-2022-42932

CWE: 120, 20, 322, 400, 829

IAVA: 2022-A-0393-S, 2022-A-0444-S

RHSA: 2022:7181

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