Oracle Linux 8 : thunderbird (ELSA-2019-3237)

high Nessus Plugin ID 130415

Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2019:3237 :

An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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 68.2.0.

Security Fix(es) :

* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 70 and Firefox ESR 68.2 (CVE-2019-11764)

* Mozilla: Use-after-free when creating index updates in IndexedDB (CVE-2019-11757)

* Mozilla: Potentially exploitable crash due to 360 Total Security (CVE-2019-11758)

* Mozilla: Stack buffer overflow in HKDF output (CVE-2019-11759)

* Mozilla: Stack buffer overflow in WebRTC networking (CVE-2019-11760)

* Mozilla: Unintended access to a privileged JSONView object (CVE-2019-11761)

* Mozilla: document.domain-based origin isolation has same-origin-property violation (CVE-2019-11762)

* Mozilla: Incorrect HTML parsing results in XSS bypass technique (CVE-2019-11763)

* expat: heap-based buffer over-read via crafted XML input (CVE-2019-15903)

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.

See Also

https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/el-errata/2019-October/009307.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 130415

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2019-3237.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/31/2019

Updated: 4/16/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-11764

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:thunderbird, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/30/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/4/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-11757, CVE-2019-11758, CVE-2019-11759, CVE-2019-11760, CVE-2019-11761, CVE-2019-11762, CVE-2019-11763, CVE-2019-11764, CVE-2019-15903

RHSA: 2019:3237