RHEL 8 : thunderbird (RHSA-2020:1496)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 135691

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:1496 advisory.

- Mozilla: Use-after-free while running the nsDocShell destructor (CVE-2020-6819)

- Mozilla: Use-after-free when handling a ReadableStream (CVE-2020-6820)

- Mozilla: Uninitialized memory could be read when using the WebGL copyTexSubImage method (CVE-2020-6821)

- Mozilla: Out of bounds write in GMPDecodeData when processing large images (CVE-2020-6822)

- Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 75 and Firefox ESR 68.7 (CVE-2020-6825)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected thunderbird package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 135691

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-1496.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 4/16/2020

Updated: 5/25/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-6825

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:thunderbird

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/16/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/3/2020

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 5/3/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-6819, CVE-2020-6820, CVE-2020-6821, CVE-2020-6822, CVE-2020-6825

CWE: 119, 120, 416

IAVA: 2020-A-0128-S

RHSA: 2020:1496

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