Executive Summary

Summary
Title thunderbird security update
Informations
Name RHSA-2016:1985 First vendor Publication 2016-10-03
Vendor RedHat Last vendor Modification 2016-10-03
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 01

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Problem Description:

An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) - i386, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server) - i386, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6) - i386, ppc64, s390x, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - ppc64le, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) - i386, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - x86_64

3. Description:

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.

This update upgrades Thunderbird to version 45.4.0.

Security Fix(es):

* Multiple 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-2016-5257)

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Christoph Diehl, Andrew McCreight, Dan Minor, Byron Campen, Jon Coppeard, Steve Fink, Tyson Smith, Philipp and Carsten Book as the original reporters.

4. Solution:

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

All running instances of Thunderbird must be restarted for the update to take effect.

5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

1377543 - CVE-2016-5257 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 45.4 (MFSA 2016-85, MFSA 2016-86)

Original Source

Url : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1985.html

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 449
Application 4

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2018-10-05 Name : A web browser installed on the remote Windows host is affected by multiple vu...
File : mozilla_firefox_49_0.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-10-05 Name : A web browser installed on the remote macOS host is affected by multiple vuln...
File : macosx_firefox_49_0.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-05-01 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : EulerOS_SA-2016-1046.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-01-04 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201701-15.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-10-28 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-3112-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-10-17 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-658.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-10-13 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2016-2513-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-10-11 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3690.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-10-05 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2016-2434-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-10-05 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2016-2431-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-10-05 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20161003_thunderbird_on_SL5_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-10-04 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.
File : centos_RHSA-2016-1985.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-10-04 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2016-1985.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-10-04 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2016-1985.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-09-27 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2016-1128.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-09-26 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2016-1119.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-09-23 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-3076-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-09-23 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3674.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-09-23 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.
File : centos_RHSA-2016-1912.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-09-22 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20160921_firefox_on_SL5_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-09-22 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2016-1912.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-09-22 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2016-1912.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-09-22 Name : The remote Windows host contains a web browser that is affected by multiple v...
File : mozilla_firefox_49.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-09-22 Name : The remote Windows host contains a web browser that is affected by multiple v...
File : mozilla_firefox_45_4_esr.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-09-22 Name : The remote Mac OS X host contains a web browser that is affected by multiple ...
File : macosx_firefox_49.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-09-22 Name : The remote Mac OS X host contains a web browser that is affected by multiple ...
File : macosx_firefox_45_4_esr.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-09-21 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_2c57c47e8bb3469483c89fc3abad3964.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2016-10-05 13:25:48
  • Multiple Updates
2016-10-03 21:22:26
  • First insertion