GLSA-201904-07 : Mozilla Thunderbird and Firefox: Multiple vulnerabilities

critical Nessus Plugin ID 123581

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Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201904-07 (Mozilla Thunderbird and Firefox: Multiple vulnerabilities)

 Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mozilla Thunderbird and Firefox. Please review the referenced Mozilla Foundation Security Advisories and CVE identifiers below for details.
 Impact :

 Please review the referenced Mozilla Foundation Security Advisories and CVE identifiers below for details.
 Workaround :

 There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All Thunderbird users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=mail-client/thunderbird-60.6.1' All Thunderbird bin users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=mail-client/thunderbird-bin-60.6.1' All Firefox users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=www-client/firefox-60.6.1' All Firefox bin users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=www-client/firefox-bin-60.6.1'

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-07

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 123581

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-201904-07.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Published: 4/2/2019

Updated: 9/28/2020

Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl

Risk Information

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-9796

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

Temporal Vector: E:H/RL:OF/RC:C

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: E:H/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:firefox, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:firefox-bin, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:thunderbird, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:thunderbird-bin, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/2/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/27/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-5824, CVE-2018-18335, CVE-2018-18356, CVE-2018-18500, CVE-2018-18501, CVE-2018-18505, CVE-2018-18506, CVE-2018-18509, CVE-2018-18512, CVE-2018-18513, CVE-2019-5785, CVE-2019-9788, CVE-2019-9790, CVE-2019-9791, CVE-2019-9792, CVE-2019-9793, CVE-2019-9795, CVE-2019-9796, CVE-2019-9810, CVE-2019-9813

GLSA: 201904-07