Fedora 17 : thunderbird-17.0.2-1.fc17 (2013-0653)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 63624

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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) More info about release :

- http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/16.0.2/releasen otes/

- Vulnerability outlined here:
https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2012/10/10/security- vulnerability-in-firefox-16/

- Vulnerability outlined here:
https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2012/10/10/security- vulnerability-in-firefox-16/

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 63624

File Name: fedora_2013-0653.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 1/20/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:thunderbird, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:17

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: 1/12/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/12/2013

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Firefox XMLSerializer Use After Free)

Reference Information

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

FEDORA: 2013-0653

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