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Mozilla Thunderbird < 2.0.0.24 Multiple Vulnerabilities
medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 5480
Synopsis
The remote host has an email client installed that is vulnerable to multiple attack vectors.Description
Versions of Mozilla Thunderbird prior to 2.0.0.24 are affected by the following 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 Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 or later.See Also
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-07.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-62.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-59.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-49.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/thunderbird20.html#thunderbird2.0.0.24
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 5480
Family: SMTP Clients
Published: 3/19/2010
Updated: 3/6/2019
Nessus ID: 45110
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6.6
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.8
Temporal Score: 5
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: 4.9
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:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/a:mozilla:thunderbird
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