Fedora 15 : thunderbird-7.0-1.fc15 / thunderbird-lightning-1.0-0.50.b7.fc15 (2011-13442)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 56397

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Synopsis

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

Description

The latest version of Thunderbird has the following changes :

- Fixed several security issues:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/th underbird.html#thunderbird7

- Numerous platform fixes that improve speed, performance and stability

The latest version of Firefox and Thunderbird has the following changes :

- Revoked the root certificate for DigiNotar due to fraudulent SSL certificate issuance (see bug mozbz#682927 and the security advisory)

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 56397

File Name: fedora_2011-13442.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 10/6/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/29/2011

Reference Information

BID: 49808, 49811, 49837, 49849, 49850

FEDORA: 2011-13442

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