KLA10970 Multiple vulnerabilities in Mozilla Thunderbird

Multiple serious vulnerabilities have been found in Mozilla Thunderbird. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to obtain sensitive information, run arbitrary code and cause a denial of service.

Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities

1. Memory curruption vulnerability in asm.js can be exploited remotely to bypass of ASLR and DEP protections leading to a denial of service;
2. Memory corruption vulnerability in triggerable web content can be exploited remotely to cause a denial of service;
3. Use-after-free vulnerability, which can occur when events are fired, after their destroying in the FontFace objects can be exploited remotely to cause a denial of service;
4. Use-after-free vulnerability, which can occur when manipulating ranges in selections can be exploited remotely to cause a denial of service;
5. Pixel and history stealing vulnerability in the SVG filters can be exploited remotely to obtain sensitive information;
6. Memory corrpution vulnerability in the JavaScript garbage collection can be exploited remotely to cause a denial of service;
7. Cross-origin reading vulnerability in the CORS can be exploited remotely to obtain sensitive information;
8. Usage of uninitialized values for ports in FTP connections can be exploited remotely to cause a denial of service;
9. Memory corruption vulnerability can be exploited remotely to run arbitrary code.

NB: This vulnerability have no public CVSS rating so rating can be changed by the time.

NB: At this moment Mozilla just reserved CVE numbers for this vulnerabilities. Information can be changed soon.

Original advisories

MFSA 2017-07

Exploitation

Public exploits exist for this vulnerability.

Malware exists for this vulnerability. Usually such malware is classified as Exploit. More details.

Related products

Mozilla-Thunderbird

CVE list

CVE-2017-5407 warning

CVE-2017-5410 critical

CVE-2017-5408 warning

CVE-2017-5405 warning

CVE-2017-5398 critical

CVE-2017-5400 critical

CVE-2017-5401 critical

CVE-2017-5402 critical

CVE-2017-5404 critical

Solution

Update to latest version

Mozilla Thunderbird

Impacts

• ACE

Arbitrary code execution. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to executing by abuser any code or commands at vulnerable machine or process.

• OSI

Obtain sensitive information. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to capturing by abuser information, critical for user or system.

• DoS

Denial of service. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to loss of system availability or critical functional fault.

• SB

Security bypass. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to performing actions restricted by current security settings.

• PE

Privilege escalation. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to performing by abuser actions, which are normally disallowed for current role.

• SUI

Spoof user interface. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to changes in user interface to beguile user into inaccurate behavior.

• OAF

Overwrite arbitrary files. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to loss of some information, contained in overwritten files.

Affected Products

• Mozilla Thunderbird versions earlier than 45.8.0