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Mozilla Thunderbird Security Advisories (MFSA2019-01, MFSA2019-03) - Mac OS X

🗓️ 30 Jan 2019 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2019 Greenbone AGType 
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Mozilla Thunderbird vulnerabilities patched by MFSA2019-01, MFSA2019-03 for Mac OS

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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

CPE = "cpe:/a:mozilla:thunderbird";

if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.814668");
  script_version("2025-09-19T15:40:40+0000");
  script_cve_id("CVE-2018-18500", "CVE-2018-18505", "CVE-2018-18501", "CVE-2016-5824");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"7.5");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-09-19 15:40:40 +0000 (Fri, 19 Sep 2025)");
  script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
  script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2019-10-03 00:03:00 +0000 (Thu, 03 Oct 2019)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2019-01-30 13:07:43 +0530 (Wed, 30 Jan 2019)");
  script_name("Mozilla Thunderbird Security Advisories (MFSA2019-01, MFSA2019-03) - Mac OS X");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Mozilla Thunderbird is prone to multiple vulnerabilities.");

  script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present
  on the target host.");

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"Multiple flaws exist due to:

  - Memory safety bugs.

  - An use after free error via a crafted ics file.

  - Lack of message validation in the listener process for an Inter-process
    Communication.

  - An use after free error while parsing an HTML5 stream.");

  script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation allows attackers
  to cause denial of service condition, run arbitrary code and escalate privileges.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Mozilla Thunderbird version before 60.5 on Mac OS X.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Upgrade to Mozilla Thunderbird version 60.5. Please see the references for more information.");

  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"executable_version");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-03/");
  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2019 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("General");
  script_dependencies("gb_mozilla_prdts_detect_macosx.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("Thunderbird/MacOSX/Version");
  exit(0);
}

include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");

if(!infos = get_app_version_and_location(cpe:CPE, exit_no_version:TRUE)) exit(0);
tbVer = infos["version"];
tbPath = infos["location"];

if(version_is_less(version:tbVer, test_version:"60.5"))
{
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version:tbVer, fixed_version:"60.5", install_path:tbPath);
  security_message(data:report);
  exit(0);
}
exit(99);

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