CentOS 7 : thunderbird (CESA-2021:3841)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 155552

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-2021:3841 advisory.

- rust-crossbeam-deque: race condition may lead to double free (CVE-2021-32810)

- Mozilla: Use-after-free in MessageTask (CVE-2021-38496)

- Mozilla: Validation message could have been overlaid on another origin (CVE-2021-38497)

- Mozilla: Use-after-free of nsLanguageAtomService object (CVE-2021-38498)

- Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 93, Firefox ESR 78.15, and Firefox ESR 91.2 (CVE-2021-38500)

- Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 93 and Firefox ESR 91.2 (CVE-2021-38501)

- Mozilla: Downgrade attack on SMTP STARTTLS connections (CVE-2021-38502)

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?cf9bea38

https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/119.html

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

https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/319.html

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

https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/1021.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 155552

File Name: centos_RHSA-2021-3841.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/17/2021

Updated: 5/6/2022

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, 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-2021-38501

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-32810

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: 11/17/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/2/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-32810, CVE-2021-38496, CVE-2021-38497, CVE-2021-38498, CVE-2021-38500, CVE-2021-38501, CVE-2021-38502

CWE: 1021, 119, 120, 319, 416

IAVA: 2021-A-0450-S, 2021-A-0461-S

RHSA: 2021:3841