Mozilla Thunderbird < 3.0.2 Multiple Vulnerabilities

high Log Correlation Engine Plugin ID 801210

Synopsis

The remote host contains a mail client that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

Description

The installed version of Mozilla Thunderbird is earlier than 3.0.2. Such versions are potentially affected by the following security issues :

- Multiple crashes can result in arbitrary code execution. (MFSA 2010-01)

- The HTML parser incorrectly frees used memory when insufficient space is available to process remaining input. (MFSA 2010-03)

- Multiple crashes can result in arbitrary code execution. (MFSA 2010-11)

- A cross-site scripting issue when using 'addEventListener' and 'setTimeout' on a wrapped object. (MFSA 2010-12)

- It is possible to corrupt a user's XUL cache. (MFSA 2010-14)

Solution

Upgrade to Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0.2 or later.

See Also

http://.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-01.html

http://.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-03.html

http://.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-11.html

http://.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-12.html

http://.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-14.html

http://.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/3.0.2/releasenotes

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 801210

Family: SMTP Clients

Published: 3/4/2010

Nessus ID: 44961

Vulnerability Information

Patch Publication Date: 3/2/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/20/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-1571, CVE-2010-0159, CVE-2010-0165, CVE-2010-0166, CVE-2010-0167, CVE-2010-0169, CVE-2010-0171

BID: 38286, 38287, 38944, 38922, 38939, 38946