SB2018112501 - Gentoo update for Mozilla Thunderbird

Security Bulletin ID SB2018112501

Severity

High

Patch available

YES

Number of vulnerabilities 46

Exploitation vector Remote access

Highest impact Code execution

Breakdown by Severity

Low
Medium
High
Critical

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 46 secuirty vulnerabilities.

1) Security restrictions bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-16541)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to content can be loaded from the mounted file system directly using a file: URI. A remote unauthenticated attacker can use the automount feature with autofs to create a mount point on the local file system and bypass browser proxy settings.

2) Memory corruption (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-12359)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to buffer overflow when rendering canvas content while adjusting the height and width of the <canvas> element dynamically. A remote unauthenticated attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website, trigger out-of-bounds write and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.

3) Use-after-free error (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-12360)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to use-after-free vulnerability when deleting an input element during a mutation event handler triggered by focusing that element. A remote unauthenticated attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.

4) Integer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-12361)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to integer overflow in the SwizzleData code while calculating buffer sizes. A remote unauthenticated attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.

5) Integer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-12362)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to integer overflow during graphics operations done by the Supplemental Streaming SIMD Extensions 3 (SSSE3) scaler. A remote unauthenticated attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.

6) Use-after-free error (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-12363)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to use-after-free error when script uses mutation events to move DOM nodes between documents. A remote unauthenticated attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.

7) Cross-site request forgery (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-12364)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform CSRF attack.

The weakness exists due to insufficient CSRF protections. A remote attacker can use NPAPI plugins, such as Adobe Flash, send non-simple cross-origin requests, make a same-origin POST that does a 307 redirect to the target site, bypass CORS and conduct cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks.

8) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-12365)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information.

The weakness exists due to a compromised IPC child process can escape the content sandbox and list the names of arbitrary files on the file system without user consent or interaction. A remote attacker can gain access to private local files.

9) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-12366)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information.

The weakness exists due to an invalid grid size during QCMS (color profile) transformations. A remote attacker can trigger out-of-bounds read interpreted as a float value and access private data from the output.

10) Timing attack (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-12367)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to conduct timing attack.

The weakness exists due to in the previous mitigations for Spectre, the resolution or precision of various methods was reduced to counteract the ability to measure precise time intervals. A remote attacker can use PerformanceNavigationTiming as a precision timer and conduct timing attack and gain access to arbitrary data.

11) Integer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-12371)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to integer overflow in the Skia library when allocating memory for edge builders on some systems with at least 16 GB of RAM. A remote unauthenticated attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.

12) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-12372)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information on the target system.

The weakness exists due to decrypted S/MIME parts, when included in HTML crafted for an attack, can leak plaintext when included in a a HTML reply/forward. A remote attacker can trigger memory leak and gain access to arbitrary data.

13) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-12373)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information on the target system.

The weakness exists due to dDecrypted S/MIME parts hidden with CSS or <plaintext> can leak plaintext when included in a HTML reply/forward. A remote attacker can trigger memory leak and gain access to arbitrary data.

14) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-12374)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information on the target system.

The weakness exists due to plaintext of decrypted emails can leak through. A remote attacker can submit an embedded form by press enter key within a text input field, submit an embedded form, trigger memory leak and gain access to arbitrary data.

15) Memory corruption (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-12376)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to boundary error when handling malicious input. A remote unauthenticated attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.

16) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-12377)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to use-after-free error when refresh driver timers are refreshed in some circumstances during shutdown when the timer is deleted while still in use. A remote unauthenticated attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.

17) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-12378)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to use-after-free error when an IndexedDB index is deleted while still in use by JavaScript code that is providing payload values to be stored. A remote unauthenticated attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.

18) Out-of-bounds write (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-12379)

The vulnerability allows a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to out-of-bounds write when the Mozilla Updater opens a MAR format file which contains a very long item filename. A local attacker can run the Mozilla Updater on the local system with the malicious MAR file, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.

19) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-12383)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to the older stored password file was not deleted when the data was copied to a new format starting. A remote unauthenticated attacker can access stored password data.

20) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-12385)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.

The vulnerability exists within the TransportSecurityInfo function due to insufficient validation of data stored in the local cache in the user profile directory. A remote attacker with ability to write data into local cache (e.g. with combination of another vulnerability) can execute arbitrary code on the target system.

21) Memory corruption (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-12389)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The weakness exists due to boundary error when handling malicious input. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in system compromise.

22) Memory corruption (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-12390)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The weakness exists due to boundary error when handling malicious input. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in system compromise.

23) Cross-origin policy bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-12391)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions on the target system.

The weakness exists due to audio data can be accessed across origins in violation of security policies during HTTP Live Stream playback on Firefox for Android. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website, bypass cross-origin policies and conduct further attacks.

24) Poor event handling (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-12392)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The weakness exists due to poor event handling when manipulating user events in nested loops while opening a document through script. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in system compromise.

25) Integer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-12393)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The weakness exists due to integer overflow during the conversion of scripts to an internal UTF-16 representation. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website, trigger out-of-bounds write and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in system compromise.

26) Memory corruption (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-5125)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The weakness exists due to boundary error when handling malicious input. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in system compromise.

27) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-5127)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The weakness exists due to buffer overflow when manipulating the SVg animatedPathSegList through script. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in system compromise.

28) Out-of-bounds write (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-5129)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The weakness exists due to a lack of parameter validation on IPC messages. A remote attacker can supply specially crafted malformed IPC messages, trigger out-of-bounds write, escape sandbox and execute arbitrary code.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in system compromise.

29) Integer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-5144)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists due to integer overflow during conversion of text to some Unicode character sets. A remote attacker can supply unchecked length parameter, trigger overflow and cause the service to crash.

30) Memory corruption (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-5145)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The weakness exists due to boundary error when handling malicious input. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in system compromise.

31) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-5146)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to boundary error when processing Vorbis audio within libvorbis library. A remote unauthenticated attacker can create a specially crafted HTML page, trick the victim into opening it, trigger out-of-bounds write and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.

32) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-5150)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The weakness exists due to boundary error when handling malicious input. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability result may result in system compromise.

33) Use-after-free error (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-5154)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The weakness exists due to use-after-free error while enumerating attributes during SVG animations with clip paths. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability result may result in system compromise.

34) Use-after-free error (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-5155)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The weakness exists due to use-after-free error while adjusting layout during SVG animations with text paths. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability result may result in system compromise.

35) Type confusion (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-5156)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists when capturing a media stream when the media source type is changed as the capture is occurring. A remote unauthenticated attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website, trigger type confusion and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.

36) Memory corruption (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-5159)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The weakness exists due to integer overflow in the Skia library while 32-bit integer use in an array without integer overflow checks. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website, trigger out-of-bounds write and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability result may result in system compromise.

37) Improper input validation (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-5161)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker can use specially crafted message headers and cause a Thunderbird process to hang on receiving the message.

38) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-5162)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information on the target system.

The weakness exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker can use the src attribute of remote images or links and disclose plaintext of decrypted emails.

39) Security restrictions bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-5168)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions on the target system.

The weakness exists due to improper privileges or access controls. A remote attacker can manipulate the baseURI property of the theme element, bypass security restrictions and cause lightweight themes to be installed without user interaction which could contain offensive or embarrassing images.

40) Spoofing attack (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-5170)

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker can use external attachments, spoof the filename of an attachment and display an arbitrary attachment name.

41) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-5178)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The weakness exists due to improper bounds checking during UTF8 to Unicode string conversion. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in system compromise.

42) Memory corruption (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-5183)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The weakness exists due to multiple memory corruptions in the Skia library. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website, trigger memory corruptions and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in system compromise.

43) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-5184)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information on the target system.

The weakness exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker can use remote content in encrypted messages and disclose plaintext.

44) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-5185)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information on the target system.

The weakness exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker can submit a specially crafted HTML form and disclose plaintext of decrypted emails.

45) Memory corruption (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-5187)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to boundary error when handling malicious input. A remote unauthenticated attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.

46) Memory corruption (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-5188)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to boundary error when handling malicious input. A remote unauthenticated attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-13