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Mozilla Thunderbird < 24.3 Multiple Vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 8100

Synopsis

The remote host has an email client installed that is vulnerable to multiple attack vectors.

Description

Versions of Mozilla Thunderbird prior to 24.3 are prone to the following vulnerabilities :

 - Memory issues exist in the browser engine that could result in a denial of service or arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2014-1477, CVE-2014-1478)
 - An error exists related to System Only Wrappers (SOW) and the XML Binding Language (XBL) that could allow XUL content to be disclosed. (CVE-2014-1479)
 - An error exists related to the JavaScript engine and 'window' object handling that has unspecified impact. (CVE-2014-1481)
 - An error exists related to 'RasterImage' and image decoding that could allow application crashes and possibly arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2014-1482)
 - A use-after-free error exists related to image handling and 'imgRequestProxy' that could allow application crashes and possibly arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2014-1486)
 - An error exists related to 'web workers' that could allow cross-origin information disclosure. (CVE-2014-1487)
 - Errors exist related to the included Network Security Services (NSS) libraries, 'NewSessionTicket' handshakes and public Diffie-Hellman values that could allow application crashes and possibly arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2014-1490, CVE-2014-1491)

Solution

Upgrade to Thunderbird 24.3, or later.

See Also

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-01.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-02.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-04.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-08.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-09.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-12.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-13.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 8100

Family: SMTP Clients

Published: 2/5/2014

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 72331

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Temporal Score: 5.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:X/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:mozilla:thunderbird

Patch Publication Date: 2/4/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/4/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-1477, CVE-2014-1478, CVE-2014-1479, CVE-2014-1481, CVE-2014-1482, CVE-2014-1486, CVE-2014-1487, CVE-2014-1490, CVE-2014-1491

BID: 65316, 65317, 65320, 65321, 65322, 65324, 65326, 65328, 65329, 65330, 65331, 65332, 65334, 65335