The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 / 23.10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6563-1 advisory.

    Multiple security issues were discovered in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked into opening a specially     crafted website in a browsing context, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of     service, obtain sensitive information, bypass security restrictions, cross-site tracing, or execute     arbitrary code.(CVE-2023-6857, CVE-2023-6858, CVE-2023-6859, CVE-2023-6861, CVE-2023-6862, CVE-2023-6863,     CVE-2023-6864)

    Marcus Brinkmann discovered that Thunderbird did not properly parse a PGP/MIME payload that contains     digitally signed text. An attacker could potentially exploit this issue to spoof an email message.
    (CVE-2023-50762)

    Marcus Brinkmann discovered that Thunderbird did not properly compare the signature creation date with the     message date and time when using digitally signed S/MIME email message. An attacker could potentially     exploit this issue to spoof date and time of an email message. (CVE-2023-50761)

    DoHyun Lee discovered that Thunderbird did not properly manage memory when used on systems with the Mesa     VM driver. An attacker could potentially exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-6856)

    Andrew Osmond discovered that Thunderbird did not properly validate the textures produced by remote     decoders. An attacker could potentially exploit this issue to escape the sandbox. (CVE-2023-6860)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 / 23.10 : Thunderbird vulnerabilities (USN-6563-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 187429

Version 1.2

Version 1.1

Version 1.0

Version 1.2 Aug 28, 2024, 7:43 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202408281943
Version 1.1 Jan 26, 2024, 11:38 AM IAVM reference Plugin Feed: 202401261138
Version 1.0 Jan 2, 2024, 6:45 PM New Plugin Feed: 202401021845