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

    Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.

    Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed content. Malicious     content could cause Thunderbird to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary     code with the privileges of the user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2012-3982,     CVE-2012-3988, CVE-2012-3990, CVE-2012-3995, CVE-2012-4179, CVE-2012-4180,     CVE-2012-4181, CVE-2012-4182, CVE-2012-4183, CVE-2012-4185, CVE-2012-4186,     CVE-2012-4187, CVE-2012-4188)

    Two flaws in Thunderbird could allow malicious content to bypass intended     restrictions, possibly leading to information disclosure, or Thunderbird     executing arbitrary code. Note that the information disclosure issue could     possibly be combined with other flaws to achieve arbitrary code execution.
    (CVE-2012-3986, CVE-2012-3991)

    Multiple flaws were found in the location object implementation in     Thunderbird. Malicious content could be used to perform cross-site     scripting attacks, script injection, or spoofing attacks. (CVE-2012-1956,     CVE-2012-3992, CVE-2012-3994)

    Two flaws were found in the way Chrome Object Wrappers were implemented.
    Malicious content could be used to perform cross-site scripting attacks or     cause Thunderbird to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2012-3993, CVE-2012-4184)

    Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues.
    Upstream acknowledges Christian Holler, Jesse Ruderman, Soroush Dalili,     miaubiz, Abhishek Arya, Atte Kettunen, Johnny Stenback, Alice White,     moz_bug_r_a4, and Mariusz Mlynski as the original reporters of these     issues.

    Note: None of the issues in this advisory can be exploited by a     specially-crafted HTML mail message as JavaScript is disabled by default     for mail messages. They could be exploited another way in Thunderbird, for     example, when viewing the full remote content of an RSS feed.

    All Thunderbird users should upgrade to this updated package, which     contains Thunderbird version 10.0.8 ESR, which corrects these issues. After     installing the update, Thunderbird must be restarted for the changes 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 5 / 6 : thunderbird (RHSA-2012:1351)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 62473

Version 1.35

Version 1.34

Version 1.35 Nov 5, 2024, 12:50 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411051250
Version 1.34 Apr 27, 2024, 10:42 PM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 score" set to 6.1) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N") CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:O/RC:C") CVSSv2 score source (set to "CVE-2012-4188") CVSSv3 score source (set to "CVE-2012-3994") CVSSv3 severity (based on CVE-2012-3994, severity decreased from "High" to "Medium") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Reference Plugin Feed: 202404272242