10 High
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
0.8 High
EPSS
Percentile
98.3%
Many of the issues listed below are not exploitable through mail since JavaScript is disabled by default in Thunderbird. These particular issues may be triggered while viewing RSS feeds and displaying full remote content rather than the feed summary. Addons that expose browser functionality may also enable such issues to be exploited.
Impact: Critical
Description: Mozilla developers and community members identified and fixed several memory safety bugs in the browser engine used in Thunderbird 3.1 and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances, and we presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code.
References:
Gary Kwong, Igor Bukanov, Nils and Bob Clary reported memory safety issues which affected Thunderbird 3.1.
Impact: Critical
Description: Security researcher regenrecht reported via TippingPointโs Zero Day Initiative that a SVG text manipulation routine contained a dangling pointer vulnerability.
References:
Impact: Critical
Description: Mozilla security researcher moz_bug_r_a_4 reported a vulnerability in event management code that would permit JavaScript to be run in the wrong context, including that of a different website or potentially in a chrome-privileged context.
References:
Impact: Critical
Description: Security researcher regenrecht reported via TippingPointโs Zero Day Initiative that appendChild
did not correctly account for DOM objects it operated upon and could be exploited to dereference an invalid pointer.
References:
Impact: Critical
Description: Mozilla security researcher moz_bug_r_a4 reported that web content could receive chrome privileges if it registered for drop events and a browser tab element was dropped into the content area.
References:
Impact: High
Description: Security researcher Mitja Kolsek of Acros Security reported that ThinkPadSensor::Startup
could potentially be exploited to load a malicious DLL into the running process.
References:
Impact: High
Description: Security researcher shutdown reported that data from other domains could be read when RegExp.input
was set.
References:
CPE | Name | Operator | Version |
---|---|---|---|
thunderbird | lt | 3.1.12 |
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-0084
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-2378
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-2980
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-2981
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-2982
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-2983
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-2984
bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=541255,615970,632206,643062,674545
bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=650252,614151,643450
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572129
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=626297
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=642469
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=648065
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=648094