The installed version of Thunderbird is earlier than 16.0 and thus, is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - Several memory safety bugs exist in the browser engine     used in Mozilla-based products that could be exploited     to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2012-3983)

  - '<select>' elements can be abused to cover arbitrary     portions of a newly loaded page and may also be utilized     for click-jacking attacks. (CVE-2012-3984,     CVE-2012-5354)

  - A violation in the HTML specification for     'document.domain' behavior can be abused, potentially     leading to cross-site scripting attacks. (CVE-2012-3985)

  - Some methods of a feature used for testing     (DOMWindowUtils) are not properly protected and may be     called through script by web pages. (CVE-2012-3986)

  - A potentially exploitable denial of service may be     caused by a combination of invoking full-screen mode and     navigating backwards in history. (CVE-2012-3988)

  - A potentially exploitable crash can be caused when     making an invalid cast using the 'instanceof' operator     on certain types of JavaScript objects. (CVE-2012-3989)

  - When the 'GetProperty' function is invoked through JSAP,     security checking can by bypassed when getting cross-     origin properties, potentially allowing arbitrary code     execution. (CVE-2012-3991)

  - The 'location' property can be accessed by binary     plugins through 'top.location' and 'top' can be shadowed     by 'Object.defineProperty', potentially allowing cross-     site scripting attacks through plugins. (CVE-2012-3994)

  - The Chrome Object Wrapper (COW) has flaws that could     allow access to privileged functions, allowing for cross-     site scripting attacks or arbitrary code execution.     (CVE-2012-3993, CVE-2012-4184)

  - The 'location.hash' property is vulnerable to an attack     that could allow an attacker to inject script or     intercept post data. (CVE-2012-3992)

  - The 'Address Sanitizer' tool is affected by multiple,     potentially exploitable use-after-free flaws.     (CVE-2012-3990, CVE-2012-3995, CVE-2012-4179,     CVE-2012-4180, CVE-2012-4181, CVE-2012-4182,     CVE-2012-4183)

  - The 'Address Sanitizer' tool is affected by multiple,     potentially exploitable heap memory corruption issues.     (CVE-2012-4185, CVE-2012-4186, CVE-2012-4187,     CVE-2012-4188)

The installed version of Thunderbird is earlier than 16.0 and thus, is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - Several memory safety bugs exist in the browser engine     used in Mozilla-based products that could be exploited     to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2012-3983)

  - '<select>' elements can be abused to cover arbitrary     portions of a newly loaded page and may also be utilized     for click-jacking attacks. (CVE-2012-3984,     CVE-2012-5354)

  - A violation in the HTML specification for     'document.domain' behavior can be abused, potentially     leading to cross-site scripting attacks. (CVE-2012-3985)

  - Some methods of a feature used for testing     (DOMWindowUtils) are not properly protected and may be     called through script by web pages. (CVE-2012-3986)

  - A potentially exploitable denial of service may be     caused by a combination of invoking full-screen mode and     navigating backwards in history. (CVE-2012-3988)

  - A potentially exploitable crash can be caused when     making an invalid cast using the 'instanceof' operator     on certain types of JavaScript objects. (CVE-2012-3989)

  - When the 'GetProperty' function is invoked through JSAP,     security checking can by bypassed when getting cross-     origin properties, potentially allowing arbitrary code     execution. (CVE-2012-3991)

  - The 'location' property can be accessed by binary     plugins through 'top.location' and 'top' can be shadowed     by 'Object.defineProperty', potentially allowing cross-     site scripting attacks through plugins. (CVE-2012-3994)

  - The Chrome Object Wrapper (COW) has flaws that could     allow access to privileged functions, allowing for cross-     site scripting attacks or arbitrary code execution.
    (CVE-2012-3993, CVE-2012-4184)

  - The 'location.hash' property is vulnerable to an attack     that could allow an attacker to inject script or     intercept post data. (CVE-2012-3992)

  - The 'Address Sanitizer' tool is affected by multiple,     potentially exploitable use-after-free flaws.
    (CVE-2012-3990, CVE-2012-3995, CVE-2012-4179,     CVE-2012-4180, CVE-2012-4181, CVE-2012-4182,     CVE-2012-4183)

  - The 'Address Sanitizer' tool is affected by multiple,     potentially exploitable heap memory corruption issues.
    (CVE-2012-4185, CVE-2012-4186, CVE-2012-4187,     CVE-2012-4188)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2012-1351 advisory.

    [10.0.8-1.0.1.el6_3]
    - Replaced thunderbird-redhat-default-prefs.js with thunderbird-oracle-default-prefs.js
    - Replace clean.gif in tarball

    [10.0.8-1]
    - Update to 10.0.8 ESR

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
62578	Mozilla Thunderbird < 16.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities (Mac OS X)	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	10/17/2012	12/4/2019	critical
62582	Mozilla Thunderbird < 16.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Windows	10/17/2012	12/4/2019	critical
68636	Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : thunderbird (ELSA-2012-1351)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	7/12/2013	4/29/2025	medium

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