The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:6198 advisory.

    Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.

    This update upgrades Thunderbird to version 115.4.1.

    Security Fix(es):

    * Mozilla: Queued up rendering could have allowed websites to clickjack (CVE-2023-5721)

    * Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 119, Firefox ESR 115.4, and Thunderbird 115.4     (CVE-2023-5730)

    * libvpx: crash related to VP9 encoding in libvpx (CVE-2023-44488)

    * Mozilla: Large WebGL draw could have led to a crash (CVE-2023-5724)

    * Mozilla: WebExtensions could open arbitrary URLs (CVE-2023-5725)

    * Mozilla: Improper object tracking during GC in the JavaScript engine could have led to a crash.
    (CVE-2023-5728)

    * Mozilla: Address bar spoofing via bidirectional characters (CVE-2023-5732)

    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.

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RHEL 8 : thunderbird (RHSA-2023:6198)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 184038

Version 1.4

Version 1.3

Version 1.2

Version 1.1

Version 1.0

Version 1.4 Nov 7, 2024, 8:25 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411072025
Version 1.3 Nov 5, 2024, 9:32 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411052132
Version 1.2 Apr 28, 2024, 2:25 PM Plugin metadata Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202404281425
Version 1.1 Nov 2, 2023, 2:21 PM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 score" set to 10.0. "CVSSv2 vector" set to "CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C". "CVSSv3 score" set to 9.8. "CVSSv3 vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H") CVSSv2 score source (changed from "CVE-2023-44488" to "CVE-2023-5730") Plugin Feed: 202311021421
Version 1.0 Oct 31, 2023, 12:12 AM New Plugin Feed: 202310310012