SUSE SLED15: MozillaThunderbird / MozillaThunderbird-translations-common / etc (SUSE-SU-2021:2003-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 150871

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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-2021:2003-1 advisory.

Mozilla Thunderbird 78.11 (bsc#1186696)

Security issues fixed:

- CVE-2021-29964: Out of bounds-read when parsing a `WM_COPYDATA` message
- CVE-2021-29967: Memory safety bugs fixed in Thunderbird 78.11

General improvements:

- OpenPGP could not be disabled for an account if a key was previously configured
- Recipients were unable to decrypt some messages when the sender had changed the message encryption from OpenPGP to S/MIME
- Contacts moved between CardDAV address books were not synced to the new server
- CardDAV compatibility fixes for Google Contacts
- Folder pane had no clear indication of focus on macOS

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: 150871

File Name: suse_SU-2021-2003-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 6/21/2021

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: 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-2021-29967

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/17/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/2/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-29964, CVE-2021-29967

IAVA: 2021-A-0264-S

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2021:2003-1

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