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Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1 < 3.1.12 Multiple Vulnerabilities
critical Nessus Plugin ID 55886
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Synopsis
The remote Windows host contains a mail client may be affected by multiple vulnerabilities.Description
The installed version of Thunderbird 3.1 is earlier than 3.1.12. As such, it is potentially affected by the following security issues :- Several memory safety bugs exist in the browser engine that may permit remote code execution. (CVE-2011-2982)
- A dangling pointer vulnerability exists in an SVG text manipulation routine. (CVE-2011-0084)
- A dangling pointer vulnerability exists in appendChild, which did not correctly account for DOM objects it operated upon. (CVE-2011-2378)
- A privilege escalation vulnerability in the event management code could permit JavaScript to be run in the wrong context. (CVE-2011-2981)
- A privilege escalation vulnerability exists if a web page registered for drop events and a browser tab element was dropped into the content area. (CVE-2011-2984)
- A binary planting vulnerability in ThinkPadSensor::Startup could permit loading a malicious DLL into the running process. (CVE-2011-2980)
- A data leakage vulnerability triggered when RegExp.input was set could allow data from other domains to be read.
(CVE-2011-2983)
Solution
Upgrade to Thunderbird 3.1.12 or later.See Also
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2011-32/
Plugin Details
Severity: Critical
ID: 55886
File Name: mozilla_thunderbird_3112.nasl
Version: 1.14
Type: local
Agent: windows
Family: Windows
Published: 8/17/2011
Updated: 7/17/2018
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: High
Score: 8.9
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Critical
Base Score: 10
Temporal Score: 8.7
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/a:mozilla:thunderbird
Required KB Items: Mozilla/Thunderbird/Version
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 8/16/2011
Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/16/2011
Exploitable With
ExploitHub (EH-11-772)
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2011-0084, CVE-2011-2378, CVE-2011-2980, CVE-2011-2981, CVE-2011-2982, CVE-2011-2983, CVE-2011-2984