Fedora 10 : thunderbird-2.0.0.18-1.fc10 (2008-9901)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 37735

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update update upgrades thunderbird packages to upstream version 2.0.0.18, which fixes multiple security issues detailed in upstream security advisories: http://www.mozilla.org/security/known- vulnerabilities/thunderbird20.html#thunderbird2.0.0.18

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-

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470864

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470873

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470881

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470883

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470884

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470894

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470895

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470902

http://www.nessus.org/u?87e23f7a

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 37735

File Name: fedora_2008-9901.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/23/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:thunderbird, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:10

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/22/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-5012, CVE-2008-5014, CVE-2008-5016, CVE-2008-5017, CVE-2008-5018, CVE-2008-5021, CVE-2008-5022, CVE-2008-5024

CWE: 189, 20, 200, 287, 399, 94

FEDORA: 2008-9901