CentOS 7 : thunderbird (CESA-2020:5618)

high Nessus Plugin ID 144547

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 7 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the CESA-2020:5618 advisory.

 - chromium-browser: Uninitialized Use in V8 (CVE-2020-16042)

 - Mozilla: Heap buffer overflow in WebGL (CVE-2020-26971)

 - Mozilla: CSS Sanitizer performed incorrect sanitization (CVE-2020-26973)

 - Mozilla: Incorrect cast of StyleGenericFlexBasis resulted in a heap use-after-free (CVE-2020-26974)

 - Mozilla: Internal network hosts could have been probed by a malicious webpage (CVE-2020-26978)

 - Mozilla: The proxy.onRequest API did not catch view-source URLs (CVE-2020-35111)

 - Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 84 and Firefox ESR 78.6 (CVE-2020-35113)

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

Solution

Update the affected thunderbird package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?fe6aa236

https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/20.html

https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/120.html

https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/200.html

https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/416.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 144547

File Name: centos_RHSA-2020-5618.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/22/2020

Updated: 12/23/2020

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

Risk Information

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-16042

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

Temporal Vector: E:U/RL:OF/RC:C

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: 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, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/21/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/2/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-16042, CVE-2020-26971, CVE-2020-26973, CVE-2020-26974, CVE-2020-26978, CVE-2020-35111, CVE-2020-35113

RHSA: 2020:5618

CWE: 20, 120, 200, 416