PT-2008-5373 · Mozilla+2 · Thunderbird+3

Guninski · Published 2008-09-27 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2008-4070

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

10

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Thunderbird versions prior to 2.0.0.17 SeaMonkey versions prior to 1.1.12

Description A heap-based buffer overflow issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, potentially leading to application crashes, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This is achieved by sending a long header in a news article, related to canceling or cancelled newsgroup messages.

Recommendations For Mozilla Thunderbird versions prior to 2.0.0.17, update to version 2.0.0.17 or later to resolve the issue. For SeaMonkey versions prior to 1.1.12, update to version 1.1.12 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-4070

DSA-1696-1

DSA-1697-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2014_1100-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10601-1

RHSA-2008:0908

RHSA-2008_0908

Affected Products

Thunderbird

Red Hat

Seamonkey

Suse

References · 1426

• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/browser/firefox_proto_crmfrequest.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/browser/firefox_tostring_console_injection.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/windows/browser/mozilla_attribchildremoved.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/windows/browser/mozilla_firefox_onreadystatechange.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/browser/firefox_webidl_injection.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/windows/browser/mozilla_reduceright.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/windows/browser/mozilla_nssvgvalue.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/windows/browser/mozilla_firefox_xmlserializer.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/windows/browser/mozilla_interleaved_write.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/browser/firefox_svg_plugin.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/vlad902/annotated-fbi-tbb-exploit · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/argp/cve-2011-3026-firefox · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/mk219533/CVE-2010-1205 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/johnwchadwick/cve-2009-3555-test-server · Exploit
• 🔥 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425152 · Exploit