RHEL 5 : thunderbird (RHSA-2009:1126)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 63881

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2009:1126 advisory.

- Firefox 2 and 3 Layout engine crash (CVE-2009-1303)

- Firefox 2 and 3 JavaScript engine crash (CVE-2009-1305)

- Firefox jar: scheme ignores the content-disposition: header on the inner URI (CVE-2009-1306)

- Firefox Same-origin violations when Adobe Flash loaded via view-source: protocol (CVE-2009-1307)

- Firefox XSS hazard using third-party stylesheets and XBL bindings (CVE-2009-1308)

- Firefox Same-origin violations in XMLHttpRequest and XPCNativeWrapper.toString (CVE-2009-1309)

- Firefox browser engine crashes (CVE-2009-1392)

- Firefox JavaScript engine crashes (CVE-2009-1833)

- Firefox SSL tampering via non-200 responses to proxy CONNECT requests (CVE-2009-1836)

- Firefox arbitrary code execution flaw (CVE-2009-1838)

- Thunderbird mail crash (CVE-2009-2210)

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-2009:1126.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?3065b6f8

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009:1126

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456202

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496253

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496256

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496262

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496263

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496266

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496267

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503568

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503570

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503578

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503580

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 63881

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2009-1126.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/24/2013

Updated: 4/21/2024

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: Moderate

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-2009-2210

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2009-1308

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:thunderbird, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5

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: 6/25/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-1303, CVE-2009-1305, CVE-2009-1306, CVE-2009-1307, CVE-2009-1308, CVE-2009-1309, CVE-2009-1392, CVE-2009-1833, CVE-2009-1836, CVE-2009-1838, CVE-2009-2210

CWE: 79

RHSA: 2009:1126