CentOS 6 / 7 : thunderbird (CESA-2017:1201)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 100065

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.

Description

An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.

This update upgrades Thunderbird to version 52.1.0.

Security Fix(es) :

* Multiple 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-2017-5429, CVE-2017-5433, CVE-2017-5435, CVE-2017-5436, CVE-2017-5459, CVE-2017-5466, CVE-2017-5432, CVE-2017-5434, CVE-2017-5438, CVE-2017-5439, CVE-2017-5440, CVE-2017-5441, CVE-2017-5442, CVE-2017-5443, CVE-2017-5444, CVE-2017-5446, CVE-2017-5447, CVE-2017-5454, CVE-2017-5460, CVE-2017-5464, CVE-2017-5465, CVE-2017-5469, CVE-2016-10195, CVE-2016-10196, CVE-2017-5445, CVE-2017-5449, CVE-2017-5451, CVE-2017-5467, CVE-2016-10197)

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Petr Cerny, Nils, Ivan Fratric (Google Project Zero), Takeshi Terada, Heather Miller (Google Skia team), Chun Han Hsiao, Chamal De Silva, Nicolas Gregoire, Holger Fuhrmannek, Atte Kettunen, Haik Aftandilian, and Jordi Chancel as the original reporters.

Solution

Update the affected thunderbird package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?7652a62f

http://www.nessus.org/u?a1e6860e

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 100065

File Name: centos_RHSA-2017-1201.nasl

Version: 3.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/10/2017

Updated: 1/4/2021

Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl

Risk Information

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-10195

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Temporal Vector: E:POC/RL:OF/RC: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: E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:thunderbird, cpe:/o:centos:centos:6, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/9/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/15/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-10195, CVE-2016-10196, CVE-2016-10197, CVE-2017-5429, CVE-2017-5432, CVE-2017-5433, CVE-2017-5434, CVE-2017-5435, CVE-2017-5436, CVE-2017-5438, CVE-2017-5439, CVE-2017-5440, CVE-2017-5441, CVE-2017-5442, CVE-2017-5443, CVE-2017-5444, CVE-2017-5445, CVE-2017-5446, CVE-2017-5447, CVE-2017-5449, CVE-2017-5451, CVE-2017-5454, CVE-2017-5459, CVE-2017-5460, CVE-2017-5464, CVE-2017-5465, CVE-2017-5466, CVE-2017-5467, CVE-2017-5469

RHSA: 2017:1201