Mozilla Thunderbird Bugs Let Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code and Obtain Potentially Sensitive Information
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SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1025941 |
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SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id/1025941
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CVE Reference:
CVE-2011-0084, CVE-2011-2378, CVE-2011-2982, CVE-2011-2983
(Links to External Site)
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Date: Aug 16 2011
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Impact:
Disclosure of system information, Execution of arbitrary code via network, User access via network
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Version(s): 3.1 and prior versions
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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 obtain potentially sensitive information.
A remote user can create specially crafted HTML that, when loaded by the target user, will trigger a memory error and execute arbitrary code on the target system [CVE-2011-2982]. The code will run with the privileges of the target user.
Gary Kwong, Igor Bukanov, Nils, and Bob Clary reported these vulnerabilities.
A remote user can trigger a dangling pointer flaw in SVGTextElement.getCharNumAtPosition() [CVE-2011-0084].
regenrecht reported this vulnerability (via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative).
The appendChild() function does not properly manage DOM objects and can trigger an invalid pointer dereference [CVE-2011-2378].
regenrecht reported this vulnerability (via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative).
When RegExp.input is set, a remote user can read data from other domains [CVE-2011-2983].
shutdown reported this vulnerability.
[Editor's note: Red Hat reported that these flaws affect Thunderbird. Mozilla had not issued an advisory for Thunderbird at the time of this entry.]
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Impact:
A remote user can create content that, when loaded by the target user, will execute arbitrary code on the target user's system.
A remote user can obtain potentially sensitive information.
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Solution:
No solution was available at the time of this entry.
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Vendor URL: www.mozilla.org/ (Links to External Site)
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Cause:
Access control error, Boundary error
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Underlying OS:
Linux (Any), UNIX (Any), Windows (Any)
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