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
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 144547
File Name: centos_RHSA-2020-5618.nasl
Version: 1.3
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: CentOS Local Security Checks
Published: 12/22/2020
Updated: 12/23/2020
Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl
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