Mozilla Thunderbird 10.x < 10.0.1 Memory Corruption

high Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 6326

Synopsis

The remote host has a mail client installed that is affected by a memory corruption vulnerability.

Description

Mozilla Thunderbird version 10.0 is affected by a use-after-free error 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.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 6326

Family: SMTP Clients

Published: 2/7/2012

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 57920

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:mozilla:thunderbird

Patch Publication Date: 1/31/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/31/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-0452

BID: 51975

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