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Fedora 15 : thunderbird-6.0-1.fc15 / thunderbird-lightning-1.0-0.48.b5.fc15 (2011-11087)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 55954

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Update to new upstream Thunderbird version 6.0, fixing multiple security issues detailed in the upstream advisory :

 - http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-3 1.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 and / or thunderbird-lightning packages.

See Also

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2011-31/

http://www.nessus.org/u?3afa6672

http://www.nessus.org/u?30fa7711

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 55954

File Name: fedora_2011-11087.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/23/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:thunderbird, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:thunderbird-lightning, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:15

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/18/2011

Reference Information

BID: 49213, 49224, 49226, 49227, 49239, 49242, 49243, 49245

FEDORA: 2011-11087