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Fedora 21 : thunderbird-38.1.0-1.fc21 (2015-11598)

high Nessus Plugin ID 84854

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to latest upstream version, see following page for changes:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/38.1.0/releasenotes/

This update also should fixed problems with thunderbird-lightning-gdata package. Rebase to Thunderbird 38. By this release thunderbird-lightning (calendar) package has become obsolete, because it is a part of Thunderbird 38 package now.

For changes see:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/38.0.1/releasenotes/

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?b5eeb5e1

https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/38.0.1/releasenotes/

https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/38.1.0/releasenotes/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 84854

File Name: fedora_2015-11598.nasl

Version: 2.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/20/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:thunderbird, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:21

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

Patch Publication Date: 7/14/2015

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2015-11598