RHEL 8 : thunderbird (RHSA-2020:0577)

Medium Nessus Plugin ID 134032

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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 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 68.5.0.

Security Fix(es) :

* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 73 and Firefox ESR 68.5 (CVE-2020-6800)

* Mozilla: Out-of-bounds read when processing certain email messages (CVE-2020-6793)

* Mozilla: Setting a master password post-Thunderbird 52 does not delete unencrypted previously stored passwords (CVE-2020-6794)

* Mozilla: Crash processing S/MIME messages with multiple signatures (CVE-2020-6795)

* Mozilla: Incorrect parsing of template tag could result in JavaScript injection (CVE-2020-6798)

* Mozilla: Message ID calculation was based on uninitialized data (CVE-2020-6792)

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 and / or thunderbird-debugsource packages.

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_aus:8.2, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.1, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.2, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.1, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.2, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.4, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_tus:8.2, cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::appstream, cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_aus:8.2::appstream, cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.1::appstream, cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.2::appstream, cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:8.1::appstream, cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:8.2::appstream, cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:8.4::appstream, cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_tus:8.2::appstream, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:thunderbird, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:thunderbird-debugsource

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: 2020/02/24

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2020/02/11

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-6792, CVE-2020-6793, CVE-2020-6794, CVE-2020-6795, CVE-2020-6798, CVE-2020-6800

RHSA: 2020:0577

CWE: 79, 120, 125, 312, 456, 476

RHEL 8 : thunderbird (RHSA-2020:0577)

Medium Nessus Plugin ID 134032

New! Vulnerability Priority Rating (VPR)

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