Mozilla Thunderbird < 24.5 Multiple Vulnerabilities

high Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 8215

Synopsis

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

Description

Versions of Mozilla Thunderbird prior to 24.5 are unpatched against the following vulnerabilities :

- Use-after-free vulnerabilities in nsHostResolver and imgLoader, which can crash with a potentially exploitable condition (CVE-2014-1532, CVE-2014-1531)
- A non-exploitable out-of-bounds read when decoding JPG images (CVE-2014-1523)
- Privilege escalation for scripts when sites that have been granted notification permissions by a user can bypass security checks on source components for the Web Notification API (CVE-2014-1529)
- A potentially exploitable buffer overflow when a script uses a non-XBL object as an XBL object (CVE-2014-1524)
- A cross-site scripting vulnerability using browser navigations through history to load a website with the page's base URI pointing to a different site (CVE-2014-1530)
- Various memory safety hazards (CVE-2014-1518, CVE-2014-1519)

Solution

Upgrade to Thunderbird 24.5, or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 8215

Family: SMTP Clients

Published: 5/5/2014

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 73770

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 8.1

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: 7.7

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:X/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:mozilla:thunderbird

Patch Publication Date: 4/29/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/29/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-1518, CVE-2014-1519, CVE-2014-1523, CVE-2014-1524, CVE-2014-1529, CVE-2014-1530, CVE-2014-1531, CVE-2014-1532

BID: 66356, 67123, 67125, 67129, 67130, 67131, 67134, 67135, 67137

Detections

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