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RHEL 5 / 6 / 7 : thunderbird (RHSA-2015:1012)
critical Nessus Plugin ID 83537
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Synopsis
The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.Description
An updated thunderbird package that fixes multiple security issues is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.
Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.
Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Thunderbird to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2015-2708, CVE-2015-2710, CVE-2015-2713)
A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way Thunderbird processed compressed XML data. An attacker could create specially crafted compressed XML content that, when processed by Thunderbird, could cause it to crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2015-2716)
Note: All of the above issues cannot be exploited by a specially crafted HTML mail message as JavaScript is disabled by default for mail messages. They could be exploited another way in Thunderbird, for example, when viewing the full remote content of an RSS feed.
Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Jesse Ruderman, Mats Palmgren, Byron Campen, Steve Fink, Atte Kettunen, Scott Bell, and Ucha Gobejishvili as the original reporters of these issues.
For technical details regarding these flaws, refer to the Mozilla security advisories for Thunderbird 31.7. You can find a link to the Mozilla advisories in the References section of this erratum.
All Thunderbird users should upgrade to this updated package, which contains Thunderbird version 31.7, which corrects these issues. After installing the update, Thunderbird must be restarted for the changes to take effect.
Solution
Update the affected thunderbird and / or thunderbird-debuginfo packages.See Also
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:1012
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2015-2708
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2015-2710
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2015-2713
Plugin Details
Severity: Critical
ID: 83537
File Name: redhat-RHSA-2015-1012.nasl
Version: 2.17
Type: Local
Agent: unix
Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks
Published: 5/19/2015
Updated: 2/5/2021
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 4.9
Percentile: 57.12
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Critical
Base Score: 10
Temporal Score: 8.7
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.3, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.4, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.5, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.6, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.2, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.1, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.6, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.7, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:thunderbird, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:thunderbird-debuginfo
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: 5/18/2015
Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/1/2012
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2011-3079, CVE-2015-0797, CVE-2015-2708, CVE-2015-2709, CVE-2015-2710, CVE-2015-2713, CVE-2015-2716
RHSA: 2015:1012