The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 / 6 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2013:0697 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-2013-0788)

    A flaw was found in the way Same Origin Wrappers were implemented in     Thunderbird. Malicious content could use this flaw to bypass the     same-origin policy and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the     user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2013-0795)

    A flaw was found in the embedded WebGL library in Thunderbird. Malicious     content could cause Thunderbird to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary     code with the privileges of the user running Thunderbird. Note: This issue     only affected systems using the Intel Mesa graphics drivers.
    (CVE-2013-0796)

    An out-of-bounds write flaw was found in the embedded Cairo library in     Thunderbird. Malicious content could cause Thunderbird to crash or,     potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running     Thunderbird. (CVE-2013-0800)

    A flaw was found in the way Thunderbird handled the JavaScript history     functions. Malicious content could cause a page to be displayed that     has a baseURI pointing to a different site, allowing cross-site scripting     (XSS) and phishing attacks. (CVE-2013-0793)

    Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues.
    Upstream acknowledges Olli Pettay, Jesse Ruderman, Boris Zbarsky, Christian     Holler, Milan Sreckovic, Joe Drew, Cody Crews, miaubiz, Abhishek Arya, and     Mariusz Mlynski as the original reporters of these issues.

    Note: All issues except CVE-2013-0800 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 17.0.5 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-2013:0697)

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