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Mozilla Thunderbird < 2.0.0.24 Multiple Vulnerabilities
high Log Correlation Engine Plugin ID 801216
Synopsis
The remote host contains a mail client that is vulnerable to multiple attack vectors.Description
The isntalled version of Mozilla Thunderbird is earlier than 2.0.0.24. Such version are potentially affected by multiple vulnerabilities :- The columns of a XUL tree element can be manipulated in a particular way which would leave a pointer owned by the column pointing to freed memory. (MFSA 2009-49)
- A heap-based buffer overflow exists in Mozilla's string to floating point number conversion routines. (MFSA 2009-59)
- It is possible to obfuscate the name of files to be downloaded by using a right-to-left override character (RTL). (MFSA 2009-62)
Solution
Upgrade to Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 or later.See Also
http://.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-07.html
http://.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-62.html
http://.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-59.html
http://.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-49.html
http://.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/thunderbird20.html#thunderbird2.0.0.24
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 801216
Family: SMTP Clients
Published: 3/19/2010
Nessus ID: 45110
Vulnerability Information
Patch Publication Date: 3/16/2010
Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/18/2010
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2009-0689, CVE-2009-2463, CVE-2009-3072, CVE-2009-3075, CVE-2009-3077, CVE-2009-3376, CVE-2010-0161, CVE-2010-0163