The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 / 5 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2011:1165 advisory.

    Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.

    Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed HTML content.
    Malicious HTML content could cause Thunderbird to crash or, potentially,     execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running     Thunderbird. (CVE-2011-2982)

    A flaw was found in the way Thunderbird handled malformed JavaScript.
    Malicious content could cause Thunderbird to access already freed memory,     causing Thunderbird to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with     the privileges of the user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2011-2983)

    Note: This update disables support for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)     images in Thunderbird on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

    All Thunderbird users should upgrade to this updated package, which     resolves these issues. All running instances of Thunderbird must be     restarted for the update to take effect.

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 4 / 5 : thunderbird (RHSA-2011:1165)

high Nessus Plugin ID 55880

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