The version of Thunderbird installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is prior to 91.8. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2022-15 advisory.

  - Mozilla developers and community members Nika Layzell, Andrew McCreight, Gabriele Svelto, and the Mozilla     Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Thunderbird 91.7. Some of these bugs showed evidence     of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run     arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-28289)

  - The rust regex crate did not properly prevent crafted regular expressions from taking an arbitrary amount     of time during parsing. If an attacker was able to supply input to this crate, they could have caused a     denial of service in the browser. (CVE-2022-24713)

  - <code>NSSToken</code> objects were referenced via direct points, and could have been accessed in an unsafe     way on different threads, leading to a use-after-free and potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2022-1097)

  - If a compromised content process sent an unexpected number of WebAuthN Extensions in a Register command to     the parent process, an out of bounds write would have occurred leading to memory corruption and a     potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2022-28281)

  - When importing a revoked key that specified key compromise as the revocation reason, Thunderbird did not     update the existing copy of the key that was not yet revoked, and the existing key was kept as non-     revoked. Revocation statements that used another revocation reason, or that didn't specify a revocation     reason, were unaffected. (CVE-2022-1197)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Detections

Analytics

Mozilla Thunderbird < 91.8

high Nessus Plugin ID 159547

Version 1.3