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CentOS 5 / 6 : thunderbird (CESA-2014:0742)
critical Nessus Plugin ID 74473
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Synopsis
The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.Description
An updated thunderbird package that fixes several security issues is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.
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-2014-1533, CVE-2014-1538, CVE-2014-1541)
Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Gary Kwong, Christoph Diehl, Christian Holler, Hannes Verschore, Jan de Mooij, Ryan VanderMeulen, Jeff Walden, Kyle Huey, Abhishek Arya, and Nils 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 24.6.0. 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 24.6.0, which corrects these issues.
After installing the update, Thunderbird must be restarted for the changes to take effect.
Solution
Update the affected thunderbird package.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Critical
ID: 74473
File Name: centos_RHSA-2014-0742.nasl
Version: 1.10
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: CentOS Local Security Checks
Published: 6/12/2014
Updated: 1/4/2021
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6.7
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-2014-1533
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:thunderbird, cpe:/o:centos:centos:5, cpe:/o:centos:centos:6
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/CentOS/release, Host/CentOS/rpm-list
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 6/11/2014
Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/11/2014
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2014-1533, CVE-2014-1538, CVE-2014-1541
RHSA: 2014:0742