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-2015-2724, CVE-2015-2725, CVE-2015-2731, CVE-2015-2734, CVE-2015-2735, CVE-2015-2736, CVE-2015-2737, CVE-2015-2738, CVE-2015-2739, CVE-2015-2740)
It was found that Thunderbird skipped key-pinning checks when handling an error that could be overridden by the user (for example an expired certificate error). This flaw allowed a user to override a pinned certificate, which is an action the user should not be able to perform. (CVE-2015-2741)
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 Bob Clary, Christian Holler, Bobby Holley, Andrew McCreight, Herre, Ronald Crane, and David Keeler as the original reporters of these issues.
For technical details regarding these flaws, refer to the Mozilla security advisories for Thunderbird 31.8. 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 31.8, which corrects these issues. After installing the update, Thunderbird must be restarted for the changes to take effect.
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# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
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# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2015:1455. The text
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"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-2015-2724, CVE-2015-2725,
CVE-2015-2731, CVE-2015-2734, CVE-2015-2735, CVE-2015-2736,
CVE-2015-2737, CVE-2015-2738, CVE-2015-2739, CVE-2015-2740)
It was found that Thunderbird skipped key-pinning checks when handling
an error that could be overridden by the user (for example an expired
certificate error). This flaw allowed a user to override a pinned
certificate, which is an action the user should not be able to
perform. (CVE-2015-2741)
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 Bob Clary, Christian Holler, Bobby
Holley, Andrew McCreight, Herre, Ronald Crane, and David Keeler as the
original reporters of these issues.
For technical details regarding these flaws, refer to the Mozilla
security advisories for Thunderbird 31.8. 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 31.8, which corrects these issues. After
installing the update, Thunderbird must be restarted for the changes
to take effect."
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script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:ND/RL:OF/RC:C");
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include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(release) || "Red Hat" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Red Hat");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Red Hat Enterprise Linux.*release ([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Red Hat");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^(5|6|7)([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Red Hat 5.x / 6.x / 7.x", "Red Hat " + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && "s390" >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Red Hat", cpu);
yum_updateinfo = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/yum-updateinfo");
if (!empty_or_null(yum_updateinfo))
{
rhsa = "RHSA-2015:1455";
yum_report = redhat_generate_yum_updateinfo_report(rhsa:rhsa);
if (!empty_or_null(yum_report))
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_HOLE,
extra : yum_report
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
audit_message = "affected by Red Hat security advisory " + rhsa;
audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, audit_message);
}
}
else
{
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL5", cpu:"i386", reference:"thunderbird-31.8.0-1.el5_11", allowmaj:TRUE)) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL5", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"thunderbird-31.8.0-1.el5_11", allowmaj:TRUE)) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL5", cpu:"i386", reference:"thunderbird-debuginfo-31.8.0-1.el5_11", allowmaj:TRUE)) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL5", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"thunderbird-debuginfo-31.8.0-1.el5_11", allowmaj:TRUE)) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL6", cpu:"i686", reference:"thunderbird-31.8.0-1.el6_6", allowmaj:TRUE)) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL6", cpu:"s390x", reference:"thunderbird-31.8.0-1.el6_6", allowmaj:TRUE)) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL6", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"thunderbird-31.8.0-1.el6_6", allowmaj:TRUE)) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL6", cpu:"i686", reference:"thunderbird-debuginfo-31.8.0-1.el6_6", allowmaj:TRUE)) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL6", cpu:"s390x", reference:"thunderbird-debuginfo-31.8.0-1.el6_6", allowmaj:TRUE)) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL6", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"thunderbird-debuginfo-31.8.0-1.el6_6", allowmaj:TRUE)) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"thunderbird-31.8.0-1.el7_1", allowmaj:TRUE)) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"thunderbird-debuginfo-31.8.0-1.el7_1", allowmaj:TRUE)) flag++;
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_HOLE,
extra : rpm_report_get() + redhat_report_package_caveat()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "thunderbird / thunderbird-debuginfo");
}
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
redhat | enterprise_linux | thunderbird | p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:thunderbird |
redhat | enterprise_linux | thunderbird-debuginfo | p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:thunderbird-debuginfo |
redhat | enterprise_linux | 5 | cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5 |
redhat | enterprise_linux | 6 | cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6 |
redhat | enterprise_linux | 6.6 | cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.6 |
redhat | enterprise_linux | 7 | cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7 |
redhat | enterprise_linux | 7.1 | cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.1 |
redhat | enterprise_linux | 7.2 | cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.2 |
redhat | enterprise_linux | 7.3 | cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.3 |
redhat | enterprise_linux | 7.4 | cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.4 |
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2724
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2725
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2731
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2734
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2735
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2736
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2737
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2738
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2739
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2740
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2741
www.nessus.org/u?f3138c54
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:1455
access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2015-2724
access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2015-2725
access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2015-2731
access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2015-2734
access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2015-2735
access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2015-2736
access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2015-2737
access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2015-2738
access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2015-2739
access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2015-2740
access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2015-2741