Mozilla Thunderbird Memory Corruption Bugs Let Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code
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SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1018834
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SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id?1018834
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CVE Reference: CVE-2007-5339
, CVE-2007-5340
(Links to External Site)
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Date: Oct 19 2007
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Impact: Execution of arbitrary code via network, User access via network
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Fix Available: Yes
Vendor Confirmed: Yes
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Advisory: Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory
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Version(s): prior to 2.0.0.8
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Description: Several vulnerabilities were reported in Mozilla Thunderbird. A remote user can cause arbitrary code to be executed on the target user's system.
A remote user can create specially crafted HTML e-mail that, when loaded by the target user, will trigger memory corruption errors
in the browser or Javascript engine and execute arbitrary code on the target system. The code will run with the privileges of the
target user.
L. David Baron, Boris Zbarsky, Georgi Guninski, Paul Nickerson, Olli Pettay, Jesse Ruderman, Vladimir Sukhoy, Daniel
Veditz, Martijn Wargers, Igor Bukanov, and Eli Friedman reported these vulnerabilities.
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Impact: A remote user can create an e-mail that, when loaded by the target user, will execute arbitrary code on the target user's system.
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Solution: The vendor has issued a fixed version (2.0.0.8).
The Mozilla advisory is available at:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-29.html
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Vendor URL: www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-29.html (Links to External Site)
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Cause: Access control error
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Underlying OS: Linux (Any), UNIX (Any), Windows (Any)
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Message History:
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Source Message Contents
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Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:06:28 -0400
Subject: Mozilla Thunderbird
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http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-29.html
CVE-2007-5339
CVE-2007-5340
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