Rocky Linux 8 [CIQ] Security Update: thunderbird / thunderbird-debuginfo / thunderbird-debugsource Multiple Vulnerabilities (crlsa-2023_1802)

high Nessus Plugin ID 356627

Synopsis

The Rocky Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the CIQ crlsa-2023_1802 advisory.

* Thunderbird: Revocation status of S/Mime recipient certificates was not checked (CVE-2023-0547)

* Mozilla: Matrix SDK bundled with Thunderbird vulnerable to denial-of-service attack (CVE-2023-28427)

* Mozilla: Fullscreen notification obscured (CVE-2023-29533)

* Mozilla: Potential Memory Corruption following Garbage Collector compaction (CVE-2023-29535)

* Mozilla: Invalid free from JavaScript code (CVE-2023-29536)

* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 112 and Firefox ESR 102.10 (CVE-2023-29550)

* Mozilla: Memory Corruption in Safe Browsing Code (CVE-2023-1945)

* Thunderbird: Hang when processing certain OpenPGP messages (CVE-2023-29479)

* Mozilla: Content-Disposition filename truncation leads to Reflected File Download (CVE-2023-29539)

* Mozilla: Files with malicious extensions could have been downloaded unsafely on Linux (CVE-2023-29541)

* Mozilla: Incorrect optimization result on ARM64 (CVE-2023-29548)

* MFSA-TMP-2023-0001 Mozilla: Double-free in libwebp (BZ#2186102)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the CIQ 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 packages based on the guidance in CIQ advisory crlsa-2023_1802.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:1802

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2183278

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2186101

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2186102

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2186103

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2186104

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2186105

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2186106

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2186109

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2186110

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2186111

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2186734

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2186735

https://errata.build.resf.org/RLSA-2023:1802

http://www.nessus.org/u?90d15932

http://www.nessus.org/u?e9994859

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 356627

File Name: ciq_rocky_linux_8_crlsa-2023_1802.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 10/1/2026

Updated: 10/1/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

Percentile: 96.62

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Unknown

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-2023-29550

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

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/RockyLinux/release, Host/RockyLinux/rpm-list, Host/OS/extended-third-party

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/26/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/28/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-0547, CVE-2023-1945, CVE-2023-28427, CVE-2023-29479, CVE-2023-29533, CVE-2023-29535, CVE-2023-29536, CVE-2023-29539, CVE-2023-29541, CVE-2023-29548, CVE-2023-29550