PT-2018-3741 · Mozilla+5 · Thunderbird+5

Cure53 · Published 2018-05-18 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2018-5161

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Thunderbird ESR versions prior to 52.8 Thunderbird versions prior to 52.8

Description The issue arises due to insufficient input validation, allowing a remote attacker to cause a denial of service by sending crafted message headers, which can cause the Thunderbird process to hang.

Recommendations For Thunderbird ESR versions prior to 52.8, update to version 52.8 or later. For Thunderbird versions prior to 52.8, update to version 52.8 or later.

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2018-1753

BDU:2021-04137

CESA-2018_1725

CESA-2018_1726

CVE-2018-5161

DLA-1382-1

DSA-4209-1

MGASA-2018-0261

OPENSUSE-SU-2018_1361-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10601-1

RHSA-2018:1725

RHSA-2018:1726

RHSA-2018_1725

RHSA-2018_1726

USN-3660-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Red Hat

Suse

Thunderbird

Ubuntu

References · 433

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-5168 · Vendor Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1726 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-5184 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-13 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-5178 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-5162 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-5161 · Security Note
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0261.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-5161 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-5154 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-5161 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-5183 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-5161 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-5170 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-5161 · Vendor Advisory