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Thunderbird 10.x < 10.0.1 Memory Corruption (Mac OS X)

high Nessus Plugin ID 58071

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Synopsis

The remote Mac OS X host contains an email client that is potentially affected by a memory corruption vulnerability.

Description

The installed version of Thunderbird 10.x is earlier than 10.0.1 and is, therefore, potentially affected by a memory corruption vulnerability.

A use-after-free error exists in the method 'nsXBLDocumentInfo::ReadPrototypeBindings' and XBL bindings are not properly removed from a hash table in the event of failure. Clean-up processes may then attempt to use this data and cause application crashes. These application crashes are potentially exploitable.

Solution

Upgrade to Thunderbird 10.0.1 or later.

See Also

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2012-10/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 58071

File Name: macosx_thunderbird_10_0_1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: macosx

Published: 2/21/2012

Updated: 7/14/2018

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 6.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:mozilla:thunderbird

Required KB Items: MacOSX/Thunderbird/Installed

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/10/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/10/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-0452

BID: 51975