Fedora 18 : thunderbird-17.0.2-1.fc18 (2013-0589)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 63533

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Security fixes can be found here:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/th underbird.html#thunderbird17.0.2

- An issue that caused occasional corruption in local folders after filtering is now fixed (815012)

- An issue that caused deletion of drafts saved in IMAP folders whilst in offline mode is now fixed (805626)

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?71f70848

http://www.nessus.org/u?2287efa1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 63533

File Name: fedora_2013-0589.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/15/2013

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: 5.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:thunderbird, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:18

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: 1/10/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/10/2013

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Firefox XMLSerializer Use After Free)

Reference Information

BID: 57240, 57241, 57244, 57258, 57193, 57194, 57195, 57196, 57197, 57198, 57199, 57203, 57204, 57205, 57207, 57209, 57211, 57213, 57215, 57217, 57218, 57228, 57232, 57234, 57235, 57236, 57238

FEDORA: 2013-0589