AlmaLinux 9 : thunderbird (ALSA-2024:6683)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 207536

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote AlmaLinux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALSA-2024:6683 advisory.

* thunderbird: 115.15/128.2 ()
* mozilla: Type confusion when looking up a property name in a with block (CVE-2024-8381)
* mozilla: Internal event interfaces were exposed to web content when browser EventHandler listener callbacks ran (CVE-2024-8382)
* mozilla: Garbage collection could mis-color cross-compartment objects in OOM conditions (CVE-2024-8384)
* mozilla: WASM type confusion involving ArrayTypes (CVE-2024-8385)
* mozilla: SelectElements could be shown over another site if popups are allowed (CVE-2024-8386)
* mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 130, Firefox ESR 128.2, and Thunderbird 128.2 (CVE-2024-8387)
* thunderbird: Crash when aborting verification of OTR chat (CVE-2024-8394)
* mozilla: Type Confusion in Async Generators in Javascript Engine (CVE-2024-7652)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the AlmaLinux 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 thunderbird package.

See Also

https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2024-6683.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 207536

File Name: alma_linux_ALSA-2024-6683.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 9/20/2024

Updated: 9/20/2024

Supported Sensors: 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-2024-8387

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:alma:linux:9::baseos, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::highavailability, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::resilientstorage, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::appstream, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::realtime, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::sap_hana, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:thunderbird, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::supplementary, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::sap, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::nfv, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::crb

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/16/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/9/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-7652, CVE-2024-8381, CVE-2024-8382, CVE-2024-8384, CVE-2024-8385, CVE-2024-8386, CVE-2024-8387, CVE-2024-8394

CWE: 120, 358, 416, 497, 704, 787, 843