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openSUSE Security Update : MozillaThunderbird (openSUSE-2017-345)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 97748

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update to Mozilla Thunderbird 45.8.0 fixes security issues and bugs.

The following security issues from advisory MFSA 2017-07 were fixed.
(boo#1028391) In general, these flaws cannot be exploited through email in Thunderbird because scripting is disabled when reading mail, but are potentially risks in browser or browser-like contexts :

 - CVE-2017-5400: asm.js JIT-spray bypass of ASLR and DEP

 - CVE-2017-5401: Memory Corruption when handling ErrorResult

 - CVE-2017-5402: Use-after-free working with events in FontFace objects (bmo#1334876)

 - CVE-2017-5404: Use-after-free working with ranges in selections

 - CVE-2017-5407: Pixel and history stealing via floating-point timing side channel with SVG filters

 - CVE-2017-5410: Memory corruption during JavaScript garbage collection incremental sweeping

 - CVE-2017-5408: Cross-origin reading of video captions in violation of CORS

 - CVE-2017-5405: FTP response codes can cause use of uninitialized values for ports (bmo#1336699)

 - CVE-2017-5398: Memory safety bugs fixed in Thunderbird 45.8

The following non-security issues were fixed :

 - crash when viewing certain IMAP messages

Solution

Update the affected MozillaThunderbird packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1028391

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 97748

File Name: openSUSE-2017-345.nasl

Version: 3.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/15/2017

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozillathunderbird-translations-other, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozillathunderbird, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.1, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozillathunderbird-buildsymbols, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozillathunderbird-translations-common, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozillathunderbird-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozillathunderbird-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozillathunderbird-debuginfo

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/14/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-5398, CVE-2017-5400, CVE-2017-5401, CVE-2017-5402, CVE-2017-5404, CVE-2017-5405, CVE-2017-5407, CVE-2017-5408, CVE-2017-5410