Buffer overflow in Mozilla Seamonkey
CVE-2008-4070
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."
Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 10.0 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.074 (94.2th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 94th percentile — 94.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.074 · newest: 0.074 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Seamonkey — versions 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2
- Mozilla Thunderbird — versions 0.1, 0.2, 0.3
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secunia.com/advisories/32025 (third-party-advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1697 (vendor-advisory)
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi (Exploit)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/32010 (third-party-advisory)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977 (vdb-entry)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00005.html (vendor-advisory)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45426 (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/32196 (third-party-advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10933 (signature, vdb-entry)