RHEL 8 : thunderbird (RHSA-2024:8790)

high Nessus Plugin ID 210413

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-2024:8790 advisory.

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.

Security Fix(es):

* firefox: thunderbird: History interface could have been used to cause a Denial of Service condition in the browser (CVE-2024-10464)

* firefox: thunderbird: XSS due to Content-Disposition being ignored in multipart/x-mixed-replace response (CVE-2024-10461)

* firefox: thunderbird: Permission leak via embed or object elements (CVE-2024-10458)

* firefox: thunderbird: Use-after-free in layout with accessibility (CVE-2024-10459)

* firefox: thunderbird: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 132, Thunderbird 132, Firefox ESR 128.4, and Thunderbird 128.4 (CVE-2024-10467)

* firefox: thunderbird: Clipboard paste button persisted across tabs (CVE-2024-10465)

* firefox: DOM push subscription message could hang Firefox (CVE-2024-10466)

* firefox: thunderbird: Cross origin video frame leak (CVE-2024-10463)

* firefox: thunderbird: Origin of permission prompt could be spoofed by long URL (CVE-2024-10462)

* firefox: thunderbird: Confusing display of origin for external protocol handler prompt (CVE-2024-10460)

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-2024:8790.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 210413

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-8790.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 11/6/2024

Updated: 11/6/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

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-2024-10467

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/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:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:thunderbird, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.10

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: 11/4/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/29/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-10458, CVE-2024-10459, CVE-2024-10460, CVE-2024-10461, CVE-2024-10462, CVE-2024-10463, CVE-2024-10464, CVE-2024-10465, CVE-2024-10466, CVE-2024-10467

CWE: 120, 20, 280, 400, 416, 79, 799, 940, 942

RHSA: 2024:8790

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