RHEL 8 : thunderbird (RHSA-2024:4717)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 203019

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-2024:4717 advisory.

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.

Security Fix(es):

* Mozilla: Race condition in permission assignment (CVE-2024-6601)

* Mozilla: Memory corruption in NSS (CVE-2024-6602)

* Mozilla: Memory corruption in thread creation (CVE-2024-6603)

* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 128, Firefox ESR 115.13, and Thunderbird 115.13 (CVE-2024-6604)

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-2024:4717.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2296638

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2296639

http://www.nessus.org/u?10ba9a06

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4717

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2296636

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2296637

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 203019

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-4717.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/23/2024

Updated: 7/23/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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-2024-6604

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-6602

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_aus:8.2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:thunderbird

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/23/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/9/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-6601, CVE-2024-6602, CVE-2024-6603, CVE-2024-6604

CWE: 119, 120, 281

RHSA: 2024:4717