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>> Mozilla Thunderbird Multiple Client-Side Code Execution Vulnerabilities

Title : Mozilla Thunderbird Multiple Client-Side Code Execution Vulnerabilities
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2007-3545
CVE ID : CVE-2007-5339 - CVE-2007-5340
Rated as : Critical 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2007-10-19


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Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Mozilla Thunderbird, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or take complete control of an affected system. These issues are caused by memory corruption errors in the browser engine when parsing malformed data, which could be exploited by attackers to crash a vulnerable application or execute arbitrary code.

Affected Products

Mozilla Thunderbird versions prior to 2.0.0.9

Solution

Upgrade to Mozilla Thunderbird version 2.0.0.9 :
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3545
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-29.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-36.html

Credits

Vulnerabilities reported by L. David Baron, Boris Zbarsky, Georgi Guninski, Paul Nickerson, Olli Pettay, Jesse Ruderman, Vladimir Sukhoy, Daniel Veditz, Martijn Wargers, Igor Bukanov, and Eli Friedman.

ChangeLog

2007-10-19 : Initial release
2007-11-14 : Updated Solution

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