RHEL 8 : thunderbird (RHSA-2023:7502)

high Nessus Plugin ID 186311

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for thunderbird.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:7502 advisory.

- Mozilla: Out-of-bound memory access in WebGL2 blitFramebuffer (CVE-2023-6204)

- Mozilla: Use-after-free in MessagePort::Entangled (CVE-2023-6205)

- Mozilla: Clickjacking permission prompts using the fullscreen transition (CVE-2023-6206)

- Mozilla: Use-after-free in ReadableByteStreamQueueEntry::Buffer (CVE-2023-6207)

- Mozilla: Using Selection API would copy contents into X11 primary selection. (CVE-2023-6208)

- Mozilla: Incorrect parsing of relative URLs starting with /// (CVE-2023-6209)

- Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 120, Firefox ESR 115.5, and Thunderbird 115.5 (CVE-2023-6212)

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 RHEL thunderbird package based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:7502.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 186311

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-7502.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 11/27/2023

Updated: 4/28/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-6212

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:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:thunderbird

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/27/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/21/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-6204, CVE-2023-6205, CVE-2023-6206, CVE-2023-6207, CVE-2023-6208, CVE-2023-6209, CVE-2023-6212

CWE: 1021, 120, 125, 22, 416

RHSA: 2023:7502

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