Kaspersky ID:
KLA11251
Detect Date:
05/18/2018
Updated:
01/22/2024

Description

Multiple serious vulnerabilities have been found in Mozilla Thunderbird. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to obtain sensitive information, cause denial of service, bypass security restrictions and spoof user interface.

Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities:

  1. Multiple memory corruption vulnerabilities in Skia can be exploited remotely to cause denial of service;
  2. An information disclosure vulnerability in S/MIME can be exploited locally via chosen-ciphertext attack to obtain sensitive information;
  3. Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely to cause denial of service;
  4. An integer overflow and out-of-bounds write vulnerabilities in Skia can be exploited remotely to cause denial of service;
  5. An unspecified vulnerability can be exploited remotely via specially crafted message headers to obtain sensitive information;
  6. An unspecified vulnerability can be exploited remotely via src attribute of remote images or links to obtain sensitive information;
  7. An unspecified vulnerability can be exploited remotely via attachment filename to spoof user interface;
  8. An unspecified vulnerability can be exploited remotely via specially crafted website to bypass security restrictions;
  9. A buffer overflow vulnerability can be exploited remotely to cause denial of service.

Original advisories

Exploitation

Public exploits exist for this vulnerability.

Related products

CVE list

  • CVE-2018-5154
    critical
  • CVE-2018-5155
    critical
  • CVE-2018-5159
    critical
  • CVE-2018-5168
    warning
  • CVE-2018-5174
    warning
  • CVE-2018-5150
    critical
  • CVE-2018-5183
    critical
  • CVE-2018-5184
    warning
  • CVE-2018-5161
    warning
  • CVE-2018-5162
    warning
  • CVE-2018-5170
    warning
  • CVE-2018-5178
    high
  • CVE-2018-5185
    warning

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