Fedora 18 : thunderbird-17.0.6-1.fc18 (2013-8298)

high Nessus Plugin ID 66487

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#thunderbird17.0.6

- Thunderbird now supports the Twitter API version 1.1 ahead of Twitter closing the 1.0 version (Bug 857049)

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?5e45a7a0

http://www.nessus.org/u?ee92984f

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 66487

File Name: fedora_2013-8298.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/17/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/16/2013

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2013-8298