Amazon Linux 2 : thunderbird (ALAS-2023-2334)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 185782

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.

Description

The version of thunderbird installed on the remote host is prior to 115.4.1-1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2023-2334 advisory.

The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as:

It was possible for certain browser prompts and dialogs to be activated or dismissed unintentionally by the user due to an insufficient activation-delay. (CVE-2023-5721)

The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as:

Drivers are not always robust to extremely large draw calls and in some cases this scenario could have led to a crash. (CVE-2023-5724)

The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as:

A malicious installed WebExtension could open arbitrary URLs, which under the right circumstance could be leveraged to collect sensitive user data. (CVE-2023-5725)

The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as:

During garbage collection extra operations were performed on a object that should not be. This could have led to a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2023-5728)

The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as:

Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 118, Firefox ESR 115.3, and Thunderbird 115.3. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-5730)

The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as:

An attacker could have created a malicious link using bidirectional characters to spoof the location in the address bar when visited. (CVE-2023-5732)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product 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

Run 'yum update thunderbird' to update your system.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 185782

File Name: al2_ALAS-2023-2334.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Amazon Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 11/15/2023

Updated: 12/11/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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-2023-5730

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:thunderbird-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:thunderbird

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/AmazonLinux/release, Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/9/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/31/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-5721, CVE-2023-5724, CVE-2023-5725, CVE-2023-5728, CVE-2023-5730, CVE-2023-5732

IAVA: 2023-A-0585-S

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