SUSE SLED15: MozillaThunderbird / MozillaThunderbird-translations-common / etc (SUSE-SU-2021:1854-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 150685

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLES15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2021:1854-1 advisory.

- Mozilla Thunderbird 78.10.2
- CVE-2021-29957: Fixed partial protection of inline OpenPGP message not indicated (bsc#1186198).
- CVE-2021-29956: Fixed Thunderbird stored OpenPGP secret keys without master password protection (bsc#1186199).
- CVE-2021-29951: Fixed Thunderbird Maintenance Service could have been started or stopped by domain users (bsc#1185633).
- CVE-2021-29950: Fixed logic issue potentially leaves key material unlocked (bsc#1185086).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

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 MozillaThunderbird, MozillaThunderbird-translations-common and / or MozillaThunderbird-translations- other packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 150685

File Name: suse_SU-2021-1854-1.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 6/10/2021

Updated: 6/25/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-29951

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-29950

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillathunderbird, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillathunderbird-translations-other, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillathunderbird-translations-common, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/4/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/8/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-29950, CVE-2021-29951, CVE-2021-29956, CVE-2021-29957

IAVA: 2021-A-0214-S, 2021-A-0246-S

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2021:1854-1

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