QID 354760

Date Published: 2023-02-28

QID 354760: Amazon Linux Security Advisory for thunderbird : ALAS2-2023-1951

an out of date graphics library (angle) likely contained vulnerabilities that could potentially be exploited.
This vulnerability affects thunderbird < 78.9 and firefox esr < 78.9. (
( CVE-2021-4127) mozilla developers and community members julian hector, randell jesup, gabriele svelto, tyson smith, christian holler, and masayuki nakano reported memory safety bugs present in firefox 94.
Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code.
This vulnerability affects firefox < 95, firefox esr < 91.4.0, and thunderbird < 91.4.0. (
( CVE-2021-4129) a flaw was found in mozilla.
The mozilla foundation security advisory describes the issue of if an attacker corrupted an object prototype, they could set undesired attributes on a javascript object, leading to privileged code execution. (
( CVE-2022-2200) an out-of-bounds read can occur when decoding h264 video.
This results in a potentially exploitable crash.
This vulnerability affects firefox esr < 102.3, thunderbird < 102.3, and firefox < 105. (
( CVE-2022-3266) a flaw was found in mozilla.
The mozilla foundation security advisory describes the issue of an iframe that was not permitted to run scripts could do so if the user clicked on a `javascript:` link. (
( CVE-2022-34468) a flaw was found in mozilla.
The mozilla foundation security advisory describes the issue of navigations between xml documents that may have led to a use-after-free problem and a potentially exploitable crash. (
( CVE-2022-34470) a flaw was found in mozilla.
( CVE-2022-34472) a flaw was found in mozilla.
( CVE-2023-23605)

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to a securitybreach or could affect integrity, availability, and confidentiality.

CVSS V3 rated as Critical - 9.8 severity.

CVSS V2 rated as Medium - 5.4 severity.

Solution

Please refer to Amazon advisory: ALAS2-2023-1951 for affected packages and patching details, or update with your package manager.

Vendor References

ALAS2-2023-1951 - alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS-2023-1951.html

CVEs related to QID 354760

CVE-2022-46878 | CVE-2021-4129 | CVE-2022-46880 | CVE-2022-40961 | CVE-2022-34484 | CVE-2022-34472 | CVE-2022-46871 | CVE-2022-34468 | CVE-2022-34470 | CVE-2023-23601 | CVE-2022-46872 | CVE-2023-23598 | CVE-2022-34479 | CVE-2022-2200 | CVE-2022-45414 | CVE-2022-34481 | CVE-2023-23599 | CVE-2023-23602 | CVE-2023-23605 | CVE-2022-46882 | CVE-2021-4127 | CVE-2022-3266 | CVE-2022-46874 | CVE-2023-23603 | CVE-2022-46877 | CVE-2022-46881 |

Software Advisories

Advisory ID	Software	Component	Link
ALAS2-2023-1951	amazon linux 2		alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS-2023-1951.html

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