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CVE-2008-4070

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-119 Buffer Errors
Publication date:
27/09/2008
Last modified:
09/04/2025

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."

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 10.00 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
10.00
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1.1.11 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.0:*:alpha:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.0:*:dev:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.0:beta:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.0.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.0.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.0.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:1.0.99:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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