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Fedora 40 : thunderbird (2024-5b8cfa7937)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 208776

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Fedora 40 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-5b8cfa7937 advisory.

 Update to 128.3.1

 * https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/128.3.1esr/releasenotes/

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 Update to 128.3.0

 * https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2024-49/
 * https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/128.3.0esr/releasenotes/

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

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

Solution

Update the affected thunderbird package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-5b8cfa7937

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 208776

File Name: fedora_2024-5b8cfa7937.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/12/2024

Updated: 10/17/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-9680

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:40, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:thunderbird

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: 10/10/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/9/2024

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 11/5/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-9680