{"vuid":"VU#661651","idnumber":"661651","name":"Mozilla Thunderbird external-body MIME type buffer overflow","keywords":["Mozilla","Thunderbird","buffer overflow","external-body","MIME"],"overview":"Mozilla Thunderbird contains a heap-based buffer overflow, which may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system.","clean_desc":"Mozilla Thunderbird is an open source, cross-platform email and news client. Thunderbird uses Multipurpose Internet Message Extensions (MIME) which extends support in Thunderbird for multi-part message bodies, non-text attachments, and non-ASCII character sets. A vulnerability exists in the way Mozilla Thunderbird parses external-body MIME type in an electronic mail which may result in a heap-based buffer overflow. According to Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2008-12: The vulnerability is caused by allocating a buffer that can be three bytes too small in certain cases when viewing an email message with an external MIME body.","impact":"A remote, unauthenticated attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code on a system running a vulnerable version of Mozilla Thunderbird.","resolution":"Apply an update Mozilla has has addressed this vulnerability in version 2.0.0.12. For further information regarding this vulnerability, Mozilla has published MFSA-2008-12.","workarounds":"Apply a workaround As stated directly from MFSA-2008-12: Users can prevent the vulnerable code from being triggered by setting the \"mailnews.display.disallow_mime_handlers\" property to any value greater than or equal to 3.","sysaffected":"","thanks":"This vulnerability was reported to VeriSign iDefense by regenrecht.","author":"This document was written by Joseph W. Pruszynski.","public":["http://securitytracker.com/id?1019504","http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-12.html","http://secunia.com/advisories/29133/"],"cveids":["CVE-2008-0304"],"certadvisory":"","uscerttechnicalalert":null,"datecreated":"2008-02-27T15:30:08Z","publicdate":"2008-02-26T00:00:00Z","datefirstpublished":"2008-03-06T13:29:55Z","dateupdated":"2008-03-06T13:45:52Z","revision":24,"vrda_d1_directreport":"0","vrda_d1_population":"3","vrda_d1_impact":"3","cam_widelyknown":"18","cam_exploitation":"11","cam_internetinfrastructure":"12","cam_population":"15","cam_impact":"12","cam_easeofexploitation":"14","cam_attackeraccessrequired":"16","cam_scorecurrent":"30.996","cam_scorecurrentwidelyknown":"32.508","cam_scorecurrentwidelyknownexploited":"39.312","ipprotocol":"","cvss_accessvector":"","cvss_accesscomplexity":"","cvss_authentication":null,"cvss_confidentialityimpact":"","cvss_integrityimpact":"","cvss_availabilityimpact":"","cvss_exploitablity":null,"cvss_remediationlevel":"","cvss_reportconfidence":"","cvss_collateraldamagepotential":"","cvss_targetdistribution":"","cvss_securityrequirementscr":"","cvss_securityrequirementsir":"","cvss_securityrequirementsar":"","cvss_basescore":"","cvss_basevector":"","cvss_temporalscore":"","cvss_environmentalscore":"","cvss_environmentalvector":"","metric":30.996,"vulnote":null}