openSUSE Security Update : MozillaThunderbird (MozillaThunderbird-3429)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 75661

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

Mozilla Thunderbird was updated to 3.0.10 to fix one critical security issue.

MFSA 2010-73 / CVE-2010-3765: Morten Kråkvik of Telenor SOC reported an exploit targeting particular versions of Firefox 3.6 on Windows XP that Telenor found while investigating an intrusion attempt on a customer network. The underlying vulnerability, however, was present on both the Firefox 3.5 and Firefox 3.6 development branches and affected all supported platforms.

Solution

Update the affected MozillaThunderbird packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=649492

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 75661

File Name: suse_11_3_MozillaThunderbird-101028.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/13/2014

Updated: 10/6/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 8.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2010-3765

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.4

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:H/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:enigmail, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozillathunderbird, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozillathunderbird-translations-common, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozillathunderbird-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozillathunderbird-translations-other, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.3

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: 10/28/2010

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 10/27/2025

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Metasploit (Mozilla Firefox Interleaved document.write/appendChild Memory Corruption)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-3765