Mozilla Thunderbird < 2.0.0.21 Multiple Vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 4964

Synopsis

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

Description

Versions of Mozilla Thunderbird prior to 2.0.0.21 are affected by the following vulnerabilities :

- There are several stability bugs in the browser engine that may lead to crashes with evidence of memory corruption. (MFSA 2009-01)
- By exploiting stability bugs in the browser engine, it might be possible for an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the remote system under certain conditions. (MFSA 2009-07)
- It may be possible for a website to read arbitrary XML data from another domain by using nsIRDFService and a cross-domain redirect. (MFSA 2009-09)
- Vulnerabilities in the PNG libraries used by Mozilla could be exploited to execute arbitrary code on the remote system. (MFSA 2009-10)

Solution

Upgrade to Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 or higher.

See Also

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-15.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-07.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-09.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-10.html

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/2.0.0.21/releasenotes

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-01.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 4964

Family: SMTP Clients

Published: 3/23/2009

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 35977

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-0040, CVE-2009-0352, CVE-2009-0353, CVE-2009-0354, CVE-2009-0355, CVE-2009-0356, CVE-2009-0357, CVE-2009-0358, CVE-2009-0771, CVE-2009-0772, CVE-2009-0773, CVE-2009-0774, CVE-2009-0775, CVE-2009-0776, CVE-2009-0777

BID: 33598, 33827, 33990