RHEL 8 : thunderbird (RHSA-2023:5429)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 182535

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-2023:5429 advisory.

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.

This update upgrades Thunderbird to version 115.3.1.

Security Fix(es):

* firefox: use-after-free in workers (CVE-2023-3600)

* Mozilla: Out-of-bounds write in PathOps (CVE-2023-5169)

* Mozilla: Use-after-free in Ion Compiler (CVE-2023-5171)

* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 118, Firefox ESR 115.3, and Thunderbird 115.3 (CVE-2023-5176)

* libvpx: Heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx (CVE-2023-5217)

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-2023:5429.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?a6da9226

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2222652

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2240893

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2240894

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2240896

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2241191

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5429

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 182535

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-5429.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/4/2023

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: 7.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-5217

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-5176

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:thunderbird, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_tus:8.4, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.4, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_aus:8.4

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: 10/4/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/12/2023

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 10/23/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-3600, CVE-2023-5169, CVE-2023-5171, CVE-2023-5176, CVE-2023-5217

CWE: 119, 120, 416, 787

IAVA: 2023-A-0379-S, 2023-A-0507-S

RHSA: 2023:5429