Detections
Analytics

Fedora 8 : thunderbird-2.0.0.19-1.fc8 (2009-0088)

high Nessus Plugin ID 35390

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to the new upstream Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 fixing multiple security issues: http://www.mozilla.org/security/known- vulnerabilities/thunderbird20.html#thunderbird2.0.0.19 Note: after the updated packages are installed, Thunderbird must be restarted for the update to take effect.

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

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-

http://www.nessus.org/u?635da753

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 35390

File Name: fedora_2009-0088.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/16/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:thunderbird, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:8

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

Patch Publication Date: 1/7/2009

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2009-0088