CVE-2008-4070 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-4070
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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."

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/45426 UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-647-1 SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00005.html SUNALERT http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1 SLACKWARE http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.379422 http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.412123 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA32010 Secunia Advisory: SA32082 Secunia Advisory: SA32044 Secunia Advisory: SA32092 Secunia Advisory: SA32025 Secunia Advisory: SA33433 Secunia Advisory: SA33434 Secunia Advisory: SA34501 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0908.html MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:206 DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1697 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1696 CONFIRM http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-46.html BID 31411

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