National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-4070

Overview

Heap-based buffer overflow in Mozilla Thunderbird before 2.0.0.17 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long header in a news article, related to "canceling [a] newsgroup message" and "cancelled newsgroup messages."

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: BID

Name: 31411

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31411

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-46.html

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-46.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425152

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425152

External Source: XF

Name: mozilla-newsgroupmessage-bo(45426)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/45426

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2009-0977

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-647-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-647-1

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1020948

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020948

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2008:0908

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0908.html

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2008:206

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:206

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-1697

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1697

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-1696

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1696

External Source: SUNALERT

Name: 256408

Hyperlink:http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1

External Source: SLACKWARE

Name: SSA:2008-270-01

Hyperlink:http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.412123

External Source: SLACKWARE

Name: SSA:2008-269-02

Hyperlink:http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.379422

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 34501

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/34501

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 33434

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/33434

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 33433

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/33433

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32196

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32196

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32092

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32092

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32082

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32082

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32044

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32044

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32025

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32025

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32010

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32010

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10933

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10933

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SA:2008:050

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00005.html

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10933

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10933