Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 18.10 / 19.04 : thunderbird vulnerabilities (USN-4045-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 126465

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

A type confusion bug was discovered in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website in a browsing context, an attacker could exploit this by causing a denial of service, or executing arbirary code. (CVE-2019-11707)

It was discovered that a sandboxed child process could open arbitrary web content in the parent process via the Prompt:Open IPC message.
When combined with another vulnerability, an attacker could potentially exploit this to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-11708).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected thunderbird package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4045-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 126465

File Name: ubuntu_USN-4045-1.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/3/2019

Updated: 5/11/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.2

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS2#E:H/RL:OF/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-11708

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 9.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:thunderbird, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:19.04

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/1/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/23/2019

CISA Known Exploited Dates: 6/13/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-11707, CVE-2019-11708

USN: 4045-1