Fedora 15 : thunderbird-3.1.8-3.fc15 (2011-2494)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 52562

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to new upstream Thunderbird version 3.1.8, fixing multiple security issues detailed in the upstream advisory :

http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/thunderbird31.ht ml#thunderbird3.1.8

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected thunderbird package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?54e90acb

http://www.nessus.org/u?71f542fb

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 52562

File Name: fedora_2011-2494.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/7/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:thunderbird, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:15

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/3/2011

Reference Information

BID: 46645, 46651

FEDORA: 2011-2494