Mozilla Thunderbird < 24.6 Multiple Vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 8292

Synopsis

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

Description

Versions of Mozilla Thunderbird prior to 24.6 are unpatched against the following vulnerabilities :

- Use-after-free issue in the SMIL Animation Controller, among other use-after-free and out-of-bounds issues, which may be exploited via web content to induce a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2014-1541, CVE-2014-1536, CVE-2014-1537, CVE-2014-1538)
- Click-jacking that can be exploited due to cursor invisibility when leaving an embedded flash object (Note, only OS X is affected: CVE-2014-1539)
- Other miscellaneous memory safety hazards (CVE-2014-1533, CVE-2014-1534)

Solution

Upgrade to Thunderbird 24.6, or later.

See Also

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-48.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-49.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-50.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-52.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 8292

Family: SMTP Clients

Published: 6/11/2014

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 74441

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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: 5.4

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:X/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:mozilla:thunderbird

Patch Publication Date: 6/10/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/10/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-1533, CVE-2014-1534, CVE-2014-1536, CVE-2014-1537, CVE-2014-1538, CVE-2014-1539, CVE-2014-1541, CVE-2014-1545

BID: 67964, 67965, 67966, 67967, 67971, 67975, 67976, 67979