RHEL 5 / 6 : thunderbird (RHSA-2012:1413)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 62755

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for thunderbird.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 / 6 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2012:1413 advisory.

- Mozilla: Fixes for Location object issues (MFSA 2012-90) (CVE-2012-4194, CVE-2012-4195, CVE-2012-4196)

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 RHEL thunderbird package based on the guidance in RHSA-2012:1413.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?68f3ecf2

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012:1413

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=869893

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 62755

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2012-1413.nasl

Version: 1.24

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/30/2012

Updated: 4/21/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-4196

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-4195

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:thunderbird, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6

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

Patch Publication Date: 10/29/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/29/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-4194, CVE-2012-4195, CVE-2012-4196

RHSA: 2012:1413