SUSE SLED15: MozillaThunderbird / MozillaThunderbird-translations-common / etc (SUSE-SU-2021:2458-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 152023

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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-2021:2458-1 advisory.

Mozilla Thunderbird 78.12

* fixed: Sending an email containing HTML links with spaces in the URL sometimes resulted in broken links
* fixed: Folder Pane display theme fixes for macOS
* fixed: Chat account settings did not always save as expected
* fixed: RSS feed subscriptions sometimes lost
* fixed: Calendar: A parsing error for alarm triggers of type 'DURATION' caused sync problems for some users
* fixed: Various security fixes

MFSA 2021-30 (bsc#1188275)

* CVE-2021-29969: IMAP server responses sent by a MITM prior to STARTTLS could be processed
* CVE-2021-29970: Use-after-free in accessibility features of a document
* CVE-2021-30547: Out of bounds write in ANGLE
* CVE-2021-29976: Memory safety bugs fixed in Thunderbird 78.12

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: 152023

File Name: suse_SU-2021-2458-1.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 7/23/2021

Updated: 6/25/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-30547

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

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:P/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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/22/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/8/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-29969, CVE-2021-29970, CVE-2021-29976, CVE-2021-30547

IAVA: 2021-A-0293-S, 2021-A-0309-S

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2021:2458-1

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