Fedora 11 : thunderbird-3.0-2.6.b3.fc11 (2009-8535)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 40600

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to upstream version 3.0 Beta3. It includes security fixes recently fixed in stable Thunderbird 2.x and Firefox/Gecko security fixes:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/thunderbird20.ht ml http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox30.html

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?280be806

http://www.nessus.org/u?2f7ebc7b

http://www.nessus.org/u?d7d74da4

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 40600

File Name: fedora_2009-8535.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/18/2009

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: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:11, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:thunderbird

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/15/2009

Reference Information

BID: 35370, 35371, 35372, 35373, 35377, 35380, 35383, 35461

FEDORA: 2009-8535