SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : MozillaThunderbird (SUSE-SU-2024:2790-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 205125

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:2790-1 advisory.

Update to Mozilla Thunderbird 115.13 (MFSA 2024-31, bsc#1226316):

Security fixes:

- CVE-2024-6600: Memory corruption in WebGL API (bmo#1888340)
- CVE-2024-6601: Race condition in permission assignment (bmo#1890748)
- CVE-2024-6602: Memory corruption in NSS (bmo#1895032)
- CVE-2024-6603: Memory corruption in thread creation (bmo#1895081)
- CVE-2024-6604: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 128, Firefox ESR 115.13, Thunderbird 128, and Thunderbird 115.13 (bmo#1748105, bmo#1837550, bmo#1884266)

Other fixes:

- fixed: After starting Thunderbird, the message list position was sometimes set to an incorrect position (bmo#1896009)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE 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 affected MozillaThunderbird, MozillaThunderbird-translations-common and / or MozillaThunderbird-translations- other packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1226316

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2024-August/036331.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-6600

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-6601

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-6602

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-6603

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-6604

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 205125

File Name: suse_SU-2024-2790-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/7/2024

Updated: 8/7/2024

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:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillathunderbird, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillathunderbird-translations-common, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillathunderbird-translations-other

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/6/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/9/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-6600, CVE-2024-6601, CVE-2024-6602, CVE-2024-6603, CVE-2024-6604

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:2790-1