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Mozilla Thunderbird < 2.0.0.21 Multiple Vulnerabilities
medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 4964
Synopsis
The remote host has an email client installed that is vulnerable to multiple attack vectors.Description
Versions of Mozilla Thunderbird prior to 2.0.0.21 are affected by the following vulnerabilities :- There are several stability bugs in the browser engine that may lead to crashes with evidence of memory corruption. (MFSA 2009-01)
- By exploiting stability bugs in the browser engine, it might be possible for an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the remote system under certain conditions. (MFSA 2009-07)
- It may be possible for a website to read arbitrary XML data from another domain by using nsIRDFService and a cross-domain redirect. (MFSA 2009-09)
- Vulnerabilities in the PNG libraries used by Mozilla could be exploited to execute arbitrary code on the remote system. (MFSA 2009-10)
Solution
Upgrade to Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 or higher.See Also
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-15.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-07.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-09.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-10.html
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/2.0.0.21/releasenotes
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-01.html
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 4964
Family: SMTP Clients
Published: 3/23/2009
Updated: 3/6/2019
Nessus ID: 35977
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6.7
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.8
Temporal Score: 5.6
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5.6
Temporal Score: 5.2
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:F/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/a:mozilla:thunderbird
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2009-0040, CVE-2009-0352, CVE-2009-0353, CVE-2009-0354, CVE-2009-0355, CVE-2009-0356, CVE-2009-0357, CVE-2009-0358, CVE-2009-0771, CVE-2009-0772, CVE-2009-0773, CVE-2009-0774, CVE-2009-0775, CVE-2009-0776, CVE-2009-0777