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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : MozillaThunderbird (SUSE-SU-2024:4326-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 213070

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:4326-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2024-50336: Fixed insufficient MXC URI validation which could allow client-side path traversal (bsc#1234413)

 Other fixes:
 - Updated to Mozilla Thunderbird 128.5.2i (bsc#1234413):
 * fixed: Large virtual folders could be very slow
 * fixed: Message could disappear after moving from IMAP folder followed by Undo and Redo
 * fixed: XMPP chat did not display messages sent inside a CDATA element
 * fixed: Selected calendar day did not move forward at midnight
 * fixed: Today pane agenda sometimes scrolled for no apparent reason
 * fixed: CalDAV calendars without offline support could degrade start-up performance
 * fixed: Visual and UX improvements
 * fixed: Security fixes

 - Updated to Mozilla Thunderbird 128.5.1:
 * new: Add end of year donation appeal
 * fixed: Total message count for favorite folders did not work consistently

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue 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/1234413

http://www.nessus.org/u?08704292

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-50336

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 213070

File Name: suse_SU-2024-4326-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/17/2024

Updated: 12/17/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-50336

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Threat Score: 1.3

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:L/SA:N

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: 12/16/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/12/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-50336

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:4326-1