Mozilla Thunderbird < 3.0.2 Multiple Vulnerabilities

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Mozilla Thunderbird < 3.0.2 Multiple Vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 5355

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Synopsis

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

Description

Versions of Mozilla Thunderbird prior to 3.0.2 are affected by the following vulnerabilities :

- 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 Thunderbird 3.0.2 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 5355

Family: SMTP Clients

Published: 3/4/2010

Updated: 3/6/2019

Dependencies: 5558

Nessus ID: 44961

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Temporal Score: 4.9

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Patch Publication Date: 3/2/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/20/2010

Reference Information

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

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