The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 / 6 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2013:0145 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-2013-0744,     CVE-2013-0746, CVE-2013-0750, CVE-2013-0753, CVE-2013-0754, CVE-2013-0762,     CVE-2013-0766, CVE-2013-0767, CVE-2013-0769)

    A flaw was found in the way Chrome Object Wrappers were implemented.
    Malicious content could be used to cause Thunderbird to execute arbitrary     code via plug-ins installed in Thunderbird. (CVE-2013-0758)

    A flaw in the way Thunderbird displayed URL values could allow malicious     content or a user to perform a phishing attack. (CVE-2013-0759)

    An information disclosure flaw was found in the way certain JavaScript     functions were implemented in Thunderbird. An attacker could use this flaw     to bypass Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and other security     restrictions. (CVE-2013-0748)

    Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues.
    Upstream acknowledges Atte Kettunen, Boris Zbarsky, pa_kt, regenrecht,     Abhishek Arya, Christoph Diehl, Christian Holler, Mats Palmgren, Chiaki     Ishikawa, Mariusz Mlynski, Masato Kinugawa, and Jesse Ruderman as the     original reporters of these issues.

    Note: All issues except CVE-2013-0744, CVE-2013-0753, and CVE-2013-0754     cannot 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 10.0.12 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-2013:0145)

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