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Debian DSA-781-1 : mozilla-thunderbird - several vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 19478

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Several problems have been discovered in Mozilla Thunderbird, the standalone mail client of the Mozilla suite. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

 - CAN-2005-0989 Remote attackers could read portions of heap memory into a JavaScript string via the lambda replace method.

 - CAN-2005-1159

 The JavaScript interpreter could be tricked to continue execution at the wrong memory address, which may allow attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code.

 - CAN-2005-1160

 Remote attackers could override certain properties or methods of DOM nodes and gain privileges.

 - CAN-2005-1532

 Remote attackers could override certain properties or methods due to missing proper limitation of JavaScript eval and Script objects and gain privileges.

 - CAN-2005-2261

 XML scripts ran even when JavaScript disabled.

 - CAN-2005-2265

 Missing input sanitising of InstallVersion.compareTo() can cause the application to crash.

 - CAN-2005-2266

 Remote attackers could steal sensitive information such as cookies and passwords from websites by accessing data in alien frames.

 - CAN-2005-2269

 Remote attackers could modify certain tag properties of DOM nodes that could lead to the execution of arbitrary script or code.

 - CAN-2005-2270

 The Mozilla browser family does not properly clone base objects, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

Solution

Upgrade the Mozilla Thunderbird package.

The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by these problems since it does not contain Mozilla Thunderbird packages.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.2-2.sarge1.0.6.

See Also

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=318728

http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-781

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 19478

File Name: debian_DSA-781.nasl

Version: 1.34

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/23/2005

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mozilla-thunderbird, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/23/2005

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Mozilla Suite/Firefox compareTo() Code Execution)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-0989, CVE-2005-1159, CVE-2005-1160, CVE-2005-1532, CVE-2005-2261, CVE-2005-2265, CVE-2005-2266, CVE-2005-2269, CVE-2005-2270

BID: 14242

DSA: 781