GLSA-202008-16 : Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 139892

Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202008-16 (Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple vulnerabilities)

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
Impact :

Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.
Workaround :

There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All Firefox users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=www-client/firefox-68.12.0' All Firefox binary users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=www-client/firefox-bin-68.12.0' All Thunderbird users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=mail-client/thunderbird-68.12.0' All Thunderbird binary users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=mail-client/thunderbird-bin-68.12.0'

See Also

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2020-37/

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2020-40/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-16

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 139892

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202008-16.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Published: 8/27/2020

Updated: 2/23/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-15669

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:thunderbird-bin, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:firefox, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:firefox-bin, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:thunderbird, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/27/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/1/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-15664, CVE-2020-15669

GLSA: 202008-16

IAVA: 2020-A-0391-S