CentOS 7 : thunderbird (CESA-2019:1775)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 126791

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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 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 60.8.0.

Security Fix(es) :

* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 68 and Firefox ESR 60.8 (CVE-2019-11709)

* Mozilla: Sandbox escape via installation of malicious language pack (CVE-2019-9811)

* Mozilla: Script injection within domain through inner window reuse (CVE-2019-11711)

* Mozilla: Cross-origin POST requests can be made with NPAPI plugins by following 308 redirects (CVE-2019-11712)

* Mozilla: Use-after-free with HTTP/2 cached stream (CVE-2019-11713)

* Mozilla: HTML parsing error can contribute to content XSS (CVE-2019-11715)

* Mozilla: Caret character improperly escaped in origins (CVE-2019-11717)

* Mozilla: Same-origin policy treats all files in a directory as having the same-origin (CVE-2019-11730)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

Update the affected thunderbird package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 126791

File Name: centos_RHSA-2019-1775.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: CentOS Local Security Checks

Published: 7/19/2019

Updated: 5/29/2020

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-11709

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

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: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/17/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/23/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-11709, CVE-2019-11711, CVE-2019-11712, CVE-2019-11713, CVE-2019-11715, CVE-2019-11717, CVE-2019-11730, CVE-2019-9811

RHSA: 2019:1775

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