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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 : thunderbird vulnerabilities (USN-817-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 40751

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

Several flaws were discovered in the rendering engine of Thunderbird.
If JavaScript were enabled, an attacker could exploit these flaws to crash Thunderbird.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/817-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 40751

File Name: ubuntu_USN-817-1.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/24/2009

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:thunderbird, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mozilla-thunderbird, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:thunderbird-gnome-support, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:thunderbird-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mozilla-thunderbird-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.10

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/20/2009

Reference Information

BID: 35888

USN: 817-1