RHEL 6 / 7 : thunderbird (RHSA-2017:3372)
critical Nessus Plugin ID 104988
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VPR Score: 5.9
Synopsis
The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.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 52.5.0.
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-2017-7826, CVE-2017-7828, CVE-2017-7830)
Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Christian Holler, David Keeler, Jon Coppeard, Julien Cristau, Jan de Mooij, Jason Kratzer, Philipp, Nicholas Nethercote, Oriol Brufau, Andre Bargull, Bob Clary, Jet Villegas, Randell Jesup, Tyson Smith, Gary Kwong, Ryan VanderMeulen, Nils, and Jun Kokatsu as the original reporters.
Solution
Update the affected thunderbird and / or thunderbird-debuginfo packages.See Also
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-26/
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3372
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-7826
Plugin Details
Severity: Critical
ID: 104988
File Name: redhat-RHSA-2017-3372.nasl
Version: 3.13
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks
Published: 12/4/2017
Updated: 5/29/2020
Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl
Risk Information
Risk Factor: Critical
VPR Score: 5.9
CVSS v2.0
Base Score: 10
Temporal Score: 7.4
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Temporal Vector: E:U/RL:OF/RC:C
CVSS v3.0
Base Score: 9.8
Temporal Score: 8.5
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Temporal Vector: E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:thunderbird, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:thunderbird-debuginfo, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.4, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.5, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.6, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.7
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 12/3/2017
Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/11/2018
Reference Information
RHSA: 2017:3372