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RHEL 5 / 6 : thunderbird (RHSA-2014:0316)
critical Nessus Plugin ID 73113
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Synopsis
The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for thunderbird.Description
The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 / 6 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2014:0316 advisory.Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.
Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Thunderbird to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2014-1493, CVE-2014-1510, CVE-2014-1511, CVE-2014-1512, CVE-2014-1513, CVE-2014-1514)
Several information disclosure flaws were found in the way Thunderbird processed malformed web content. An attacker could use these flaws to gain access to sensitive information such as cross-domain content or protected memory addresses or, potentially, cause Thunderbird to crash.
(CVE-2014-1497, CVE-2014-1508, CVE-2014-1505)
A memory corruption flaw was found in the way Thunderbird rendered certain PDF files. An attacker able to trick a user into installing a malicious extension could use this flaw to crash Thunderbird or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Thunderbird.
(CVE-2014-1509)
Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues.
Upstream acknowledges Benoit Jacob, Olli Pettay, Jan Varga, Jan de Mooij, Jesse Ruderman, Dan Gohman, Christoph Diehl, Atte Kettunen, Tyson Smith, Jesse Schwartzentruber, John Thomson, Robert O'Callahan, Mariusz Mlynski, Jri Aedla, George Hotz, and the security research firm VUPEN as the original reporters of these issues.
Note: All of the above issues cannot be exploited by a specially-crafted HTML mail message as JavaScript is disabled by default for mail messages.
They could be exploited another way in Thunderbird, for example, when viewing the full remote content of an RSS feed.
For technical details regarding these flaws, refer to the Mozilla security advisories for Thunderbird 24.4.0. You can find a link to the Mozilla advisories in the References section of this erratum.
All Thunderbird users should upgrade to this updated package, which contains Thunderbird version 24.4.0, which corrects these issues.
After installing the update, Thunderbird must be restarted for the changes to take effect.
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-2014:0316.See Also
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:0316
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
http://www.nessus.org/u?8d3c06cb
http://www.nessus.org/u?fedf332c
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1077013
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1077016
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1077025
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1077028
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1077029
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1077490
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1077491
Plugin Details
Severity: Critical
ID: 73113
File Name: redhat-RHSA-2014-0316.nasl
Version: 1.33
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks
Published: 3/20/2014
Updated: 3/20/2025
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Critical
Score: 9.5
Vendor
Vendor Severity: Important
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Critical
Base Score: 10
Temporal Score: 8.7
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-1512
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-2014-1514
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:thunderbird, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, 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: 3/19/2014
Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/19/2014
Exploitable With
Metasploit (Firefox WebIDL Privileged Javascript Injection)
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2014-1493, CVE-2014-1497, CVE-2014-1505, CVE-2014-1508, CVE-2014-1509, CVE-2014-1510, CVE-2014-1511, CVE-2014-1512, CVE-2014-1513, CVE-2014-1514