RHEL 6 : thunderbird (RHSA-2012:0080)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 57761

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for thunderbird.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2012:0080 advisory.

- Mozilla: child nodes from nsDOMAttribute still accessible after removal of nodes (MFSA 2012-04) (CVE-2011-3659)

- Mozilla: Same-origin bypass using IPv6-like hostname syntax (MFSA 2012-02) (CVE-2011-3670)

- Mozilla: memory safety hazards in 10.0/1.9.2.26 (MFSA 2012-01) (CVE-2012-0442)

- Mozilla: Crash when rendering SVG+XSLT (MFSA 2012-08) (CVE-2012-0449)

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-2012:0080.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?70ba83a1

http://www.nessus.org/u?8267fda4

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012:0080

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=785085

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=785464

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=785966

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=786258

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 57761

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2012-0080.nasl

Version: 1.32

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/1/2012

Updated: 4/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.0

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 8.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-0449

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.4

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:H/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-3659

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:thunderbird, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/31/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/1/2012

Exploitable With

CANVAS (White_Phosphorus)

Metasploit (Firefox 8/9 AttributeChildRemoved() Use-After-Free)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-3659, CVE-2011-3670, CVE-2012-0442, CVE-2012-0449

BID: 51754, 51755, 51756

RHSA: 2012:0080