Amazon Linux 2 : thunderbird (ALAS-2024-2583)

high Nessus Plugin ID 202242

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 115.12.1-1. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2024-2583 advisory.

Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 126, Firefox ESR 115.11, and Thunderbird 115.11. 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. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 127 and Firefox ESR < 115.12.
(CVE-2024-5700)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Run 'yum update thunderbird' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS-2024-2583.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-5700.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 202242

File Name: al2_ALAS-2024-2583.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/12/2024

Updated: 9/13/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.6

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-5700

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7

Temporal Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/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: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: 7/3/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/11/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-5700

IAVA: 2024-A-0387-S