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Mozilla Thunderbird < 52.0

critical Nessus Plugin ID 275695

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Synopsis

A mail client installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

Description

The version of Thunderbird installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is prior to 52.0. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the mfsa2017-09 advisory.

 - Mozilla developers and community members Carsten Book, Calixte Denizet, Christian Holler, Andrew McCreight, David Bolter, David Keeler, Jon Coppeard, Tyson Smith, Ronald Crane, Tooru Fujisawa, Ben Kelly, Bob Owen, Jed Davis, Julian Seward, Julian Hector, Philipp, Markus Stange, and Andr Bargull reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 51. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort that some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code.
 (CVE-2017-5399)

 - A segmentation fault can occur during some bidirectional layout operations. (CVE-2017-5413)

 - JIT-spray targeting asm.js combined with a heap spray allows for a bypass of ASLR and DEP protections leading to potential memory corruption attacks. (CVE-2017-5400)

 - A crash triggerable by web content in which an <code>ErrorResult</code> references unassigned memory due to a logic error. The resulting crash may be exploitable. (CVE-2017-5401)

 - A use-after-free can occur when events are fired for a <code>FontFace</code> object after the object has been already been destroyed while working with fonts. This results in a potentially exploitable crash.
 (CVE-2017-5402)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade to Mozilla Thunderbird version 52.0 or later.

See Also

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-09/

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 275695

File Name: macos_thunderbird_52_0.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: macosx

Published: 11/18/2025

Updated: 11/18/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-5399

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-5413

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:mozilla:thunderbird

Required KB Items: installed_sw/Mozilla Thunderbird

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/5/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/7/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-5398, CVE-2017-5399, CVE-2017-5400, CVE-2017-5401, CVE-2017-5402, CVE-2017-5403, CVE-2017-5404, CVE-2017-5405, CVE-2017-5406, CVE-2017-5407, CVE-2017-5408, CVE-2017-5410, CVE-2017-5411, CVE-2017-5412, CVE-2017-5413, CVE-2017-5414, CVE-2017-5416, CVE-2017-5418, CVE-2017-5419, CVE-2017-5421, CVE-2017-5422, CVE-2017-5425, CVE-2017-5426

IAVA: 2017-A-0050-S