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openSUSE Security Update : MozillaThunderbird (openSUSE-2016-1057)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 93363

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for MozillaThunderbird fixes the following issues :

 - update to Thunderbird 45.3.0 (boo#991809)

 - Disposition-Notification-To could not be used in mail.compose.other.header

 - 'edit as new message' on a received message pre-filled the sender as the composing identity.

 - Certain messages caused corruption of the drafts summary database. security fixes :

 - MFSA 2016-62/CVE-2016-2836 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards

 - MFSA 2016-63/CVE-2016-2830 (bmo#1255270) Favicon network connection can persist when page is closed

 - MFSA 2016-64/CVE-2016-2838 (bmo#1279814) Buffer overflow rendering SVG with bidirectional content

 - MFSA 2016-65/CVE-2016-2839 (bmo#1275339) Cairo rendering crash due to memory allocation issue with FFmpeg 0.10

 - MFSA 2016-67/CVE-2016-5252 (bmo#1268854) Stack underflow during 2D graphics rendering

 - MFSA 2016-70/CVE-2016-5254 (bmo#1266963) Use-after-free when using alt key and toplevel menus

 - MFSA 2016-72/CVE-2016-5258 (bmo#1279146) Use-after-free in DTLS during WebRTC session shutdown

 - MFSA 2016-73/CVE-2016-5259 (bmo#1282992) Use-after-free in service workers with nested sync events

 - MFSA 2016-76/CVE-2016-5262 (bmo#1277475) Scripts on marquee tag can execute in sandboxed iframes

 - MFSA 2016-77/CVE-2016-2837 (bmo#1274637) Buffer overflow in ClearKey Content Decryption Module (CDM) during video playback

 - MFSA 2016-78/CVE-2016-5263 (bmo#1276897) Type confusion in display transformation

 - MFSA 2016-79/CVE-2016-5264 (bmo#1286183) Use-after-free when applying SVG effects

 - MFSA 2016-80/CVE-2016-5265 (bmo#1278013) Same-origin policy violation using local HTML file and saved shortcut file

 - Fix for possible buffer overrun (boo#990856) CVE-2016-6354 (bmo#1292534) [mozilla-flex_buffer_overrun.patch]

 - add a screenshot to appdata.xml

Solution

Update the affected MozillaThunderbird packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=990856

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=991809

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 93363

File Name: openSUSE-2016-1057.nasl

Version: 2.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/8/2016

Updated: 1/27/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous 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: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-6354

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozillathunderbird-translations-common, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozillathunderbird-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozillathunderbird, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozillathunderbird-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozillathunderbird-translations-other, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozillathunderbird-buildsymbols, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mozillathunderbird-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.1, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.2

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/6/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-2830, CVE-2016-2836, CVE-2016-2837, CVE-2016-2838, CVE-2016-2839, CVE-2016-5252, CVE-2016-5254, CVE-2016-5258, CVE-2016-5259, CVE-2016-5262, CVE-2016-5263, CVE-2016-5264, CVE-2016-5265, CVE-2016-6354