The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 / 7 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2017:2885 advisory.

    Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.

    This update upgrades Thunderbird to version 52.4.0.

    Security Fix(es):

    * Multiple flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious     content could cause Thunderbird to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of     the user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2017-7810, CVE-2017-7793, CVE-2017-7818, CVE-2017-7819, CVE-2017-7824,     CVE-2017-7814, CVE-2017-7823)

    Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges     Christoph Diehl, Jan de Mooij, Jason Kratzer, Randell Jesup, Tom Ritter, Tyson Smith, Sebastian Hengst,     Abhishek Arya, Nils, Omair, Andre Weissflog, Franois Marier, and Jun Kokatsu as the original reporters.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise 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.

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RHEL 6 / 7 : thunderbird (RHSA-2017:2885)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 103805

Version 3.14