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…

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."

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

7.4% · top 5.6% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 10.0.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-119 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-119 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (25)

• 32025 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• DSA-1697 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425152 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• MDVSA-2008:206 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
• 32010 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• ADV-2009-0977 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• SUSE-SA:2008:050 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• mozilla-newsgroupmessage-bo(45426) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• 32196 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10933 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
• 33433 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• SSA:2008-269-02 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SLACKWAREx_transferred
• 1020948 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• 256408 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTx_transferred
• 32092 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• DSA-1696 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• USN-647-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-46.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 33434 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• SSA:2008-270-01 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SLACKWAREx_transferred
• 32044 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• RHSA-2008:0908 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• 31411 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• 34501 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 32082 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 10:00 UTC.