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Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : thunderbird (ELSA-2012-1351)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 68636

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2012-1351 advisory.

 [10.0.8-1.0.1.el6_3]
 - Replaced thunderbird-redhat-default-prefs.js with thunderbird-oracle-default-prefs.js
 - Replace clean.gif in tarball

 [10.0.8-1]
 - Update to 10.0.8 ESR

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected thunderbird package.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2012-1351.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 68636

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2012-1351.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/12/2013

Updated: 4/29/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 8.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-4188

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-1956

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:thunderbird, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:6

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/OracleLinux

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/10/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/29/2012

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Firefox 5.0 - 15.0.1 __exposedProps__ XCS Code Execution)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-1956, CVE-2012-3982, CVE-2012-3986, CVE-2012-3988, CVE-2012-3990, CVE-2012-3991, CVE-2012-3992, CVE-2012-3993, CVE-2012-3994, CVE-2012-3995, CVE-2012-4179, CVE-2012-4180, CVE-2012-4181, CVE-2012-4182, CVE-2012-4183, CVE-2012-4184, CVE-2012-4185, CVE-2012-4186, CVE-2012-4187, CVE-2012-4188

BID: 55260

RHSA: 2012:1351