KLA11186 Multiple vulnerabilities in Mozilla Thunderbird

Multiple serious vulnerabilities have been found in Mozilla Thunderbird. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to cause denial of service, spoof user interface and execute arbitrary code.

Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities:

1. Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities can be explotied remotely to cause denial of service;
2. An unspecified vulnerability in the addressbar can be exploited remotely via specially crafted URL to spoof user interface;
3. Multiple memory corruption vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely to execute arbitrary code;

Original advisories

Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2018-04

Related products

Mozilla-Thunderbird

CVE list

CVE-2018-5095 critical

CVE-2018-5096 critical

CVE-2018-5097 critical

CVE-2018-5098 critical

CVE-2018-5099 critical

CVE-2018-5102 critical

CVE-2018-5103 critical

CVE-2018-5104 critical

CVE-2018-5117 warning

CVE-2018-5089 critical

Solution

Update to the latest version

Download 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.

• XSS/CSS

Cross site scripting. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to partial interception of information transmitted between user and site.

• SUI

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

Affected Products

• Mozilla Thunderbird earlier than 52.6