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MiracleLinux 4 : thunderbird-45.4.0-1.AXS4 (AXSA:2016-696:07)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 288964

Synopsis

The remote MiracleLinux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote MiracleLinux 4 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the AXSA:2016-696:07 advisory.

 Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.
 Security issues fixed with this release:
 CVE-2016-5257 Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 49.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.4 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors.

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

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

Solution

Update the affected thunderbird package.

See Also

https://tsn.miraclelinux.com/en/node/7128

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 288964

File Name: miracle_linux_AXSA-2016-696.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 1/16/2026

Updated: 1/16/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-5257

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:thunderbird, cpe:/o:miracle:linux:4

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/4/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/20/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-5257