RHEL 8 : thunderbird (RHSA-2024:10734)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 212012

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-2024:10734 advisory.

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.

Security Fix(es):

* thunderbird: Potential disclosure of plaintext in OpenPGP encrypted message (CVE-2024-11159)

* firefox: thunderbird: CSP Bypass and XSS Exposure via Web Compatibility Shims (CVE-2024-11694)

* firefox: thunderbird: Unhandled Exception in Add-on Signature Verification (CVE-2024-11696)

* firefox: thunderbird: Select list elements could be shown over another site (CVE-2024-11692)

* firefox: thunderbird: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 133, Thunderbird 133, Firefox ESR 128.5, and Thunderbird 128.5 (CVE-2024-11699)

* firefox: thunderbird: URL Bar Spoofing via Manipulated Punycode and Whitespace Characters (CVE-2024-11695)

* firefox: thunderbird: Improper Keypress Handling in Executable File Confirmation Dialog (CVE-2024-11697)

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-2024:10734.

See Also

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2325896

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2328941

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2328943

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2328946

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2328947

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2328948

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2328950

http://www.nessus.org/u?ad232f74

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:10734

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 212012

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-10734.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/3/2024

Updated: 12/3/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-11159

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:thunderbird, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.6, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_tus:8.6, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_aus:8.6

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: 12/3/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/12/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-11159, CVE-2024-11692, CVE-2024-11694, CVE-2024-11695, CVE-2024-11696, CVE-2024-11697, CVE-2024-11699

CWE: 120, 200, 354, 356, 451, 79

RHSA: 2024:10734