CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-4070
10.0 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-09-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
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."
Affected configurations
• mozilla seamonkey (<= 1.1.11)
• mozilla seamonkey 1.0
• mozilla seamonkey 1.0.1
• mozilla seamonkey 1.0.2
• mozilla seamonkey 1.0.3
• mozilla seamonkey 1.0.4
• mozilla seamonkey 1.0.5
• mozilla seamonkey 1.0.6
• mozilla seamonkey 1.0.7
• mozilla seamonkey 1.0.8
• mozilla seamonkey 1.0.9
• mozilla seamonkey 1.0.99
• mozilla seamonkey 1.1
• mozilla seamonkey 1.1.1
• mozilla seamonkey 1.1.2
• mozilla seamonkey 1.1.10
• mozilla thunderbird (<= 2.0.0.16)
• mozilla thunderbird 0.1
• mozilla thunderbird 0.2
• mozilla thunderbird 0.3
• mozilla thunderbird 0.4
• mozilla thunderbird 0.5
• mozilla thunderbird 0.6
• mozilla thunderbird 0.7
• mozilla thunderbird 0.7.1
• mozilla thunderbird 0.7.2
• mozilla thunderbird 0.7.3
• mozilla thunderbird 0.8
• mozilla thunderbird 0.9
• mozilla thunderbird 1.0
• mozilla thunderbird 1.0.1
• mozilla thunderbird 1.0.2
• mozilla thunderbird 1.0.3
• mozilla thunderbird 1.0.4
• mozilla thunderbird 1.0.5
• mozilla thunderbird 1.0.6
• mozilla thunderbird 1.0.7
• mozilla thunderbird 1.0.8
• mozilla thunderbird 1.5
• mozilla thunderbird 1.5.0.1
• mozilla thunderbird 1.5.0.2
• mozilla thunderbird 1.5.0.3
• mozilla thunderbird 1.5.0.4
• mozilla thunderbird 1.5.0.6
• mozilla thunderbird 1.5.0.7
• mozilla thunderbird 1.5.0.8
• mozilla thunderbird 1.5.0.9
• mozilla thunderbird 1.5.0.10
• mozilla thunderbird 1.5.0.11
• mozilla thunderbird 1.5.1
• mozilla thunderbird 1.5.2
• mozilla thunderbird 1.7.1
• mozilla thunderbird 1.7.3
• mozilla thunderbird 2.0.0.0
• mozilla thunderbird 2.0.0.1
• mozilla thunderbird 2.0.0.2
• mozilla thunderbird 2.0.0.3
• mozilla thunderbird 2.0.0.4
• mozilla thunderbird 2.0.0.5
• mozilla thunderbird 2.0.0.6
… and 7 more
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00005.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32010 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32025 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32044 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32082 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32092 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32196 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33433 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33434 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34501 secunia.com
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.379422 slackware.com
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.412123 slackware.com
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1 sunsolve.sun.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1696 www.debian.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1697 www.debian.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:206 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-46.html Patch
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0908.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31411 Patch
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020948 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-647-1 www.ubuntu.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977 www.vupen.com
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425152 Exploit
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45426 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10933 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00005.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32010 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32025 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32044 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32082 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32092 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32196 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33433 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33434 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34501 secunia.com
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.379422 slackware.com
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.412123 slackware.com
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1 sunsolve.sun.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1696 www.debian.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1697 www.debian.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:206 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-46.html Patch
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0908.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31411 Patch
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020948 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-647-1 www.ubuntu.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977 www.vupen.com
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425152 Exploit
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45426 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10933 oval.cisecurity.org