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Mozilla Thunderbird < 2.0.0.17 Multiple Vulnerabilities
medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 4696
Synopsis
The remote host has an email client installed that is vulnerable to multiple attack vectors.Description
Versions of Mozilla Thunderbird prior to 2.0.0.17 are affected by the following vulnerabilities :- Using a specially crafted UTF-8 URL in a hyperlink, an attacker might be able to exploit a stack buffer overflow in the Mozilla URL parsing routes to execute arbitrary code (MFSA 2008-37).
- It is possible to bypass the same-origin check in 'nsXMLDocument::OnChannelRedirect()' (MFSA 2008-38).
- Privilege escalation is possible via 'XPCnativeWrapper' pollution (MFSA 2008-41).
- There are several stability bugs in the browser engine that may lead to crashes with evidence of memory corruption (MFSA 2008-42).
- Certain BOM characters and low surrogate characters, if HTML-escaped, are stripped from JavaScript code before it is executed, which could allow for cross-site scripting attacks (MFSA 2008-43).
- The 'resource:' protocol allows directory traversal on Linux when using URL-encoded slashes, and it can by used to bypass restrictions on local HTML files (MFSA 2008-44).
- There is a heap buffer overflow that can be triggered when canceling a newsgroup message (MFSA 2008-46).
Solution
Upgrade to Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 or higher.See Also
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-41.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-42.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-43.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-44.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31346
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-38.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-37.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-46.html
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 4696
Family: SMTP Clients
Published: 9/26/2008
Updated: 3/6/2019
Nessus ID: 34294
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: High
Score: 7.4
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.8
Temporal Score: 5.6
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: 5.2
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:F/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/a:mozilla:thunderbird
Exploitable With
CANVAS (CANVAS)
Core Impact
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2008-0016, CVE-2008-3835, CVE-2008-3836, CVE-2008-3837, CVE-2008-4058, CVE-2008-4059, CVE-2008-4060, CVE-2008-4061, CVE-2008-4062, CVE-2008-4063, CVE-2008-4064, CVE-2008-4065, CVE-2008-4066, CVE-2008-4067, CVE-2008-4068, CVE-2008-4069, CVE-2008-4070