You are currently viewing a snapshot of www.mozilla.org taken on April 21, 2008. Most of this content is highly out of date (some pages haven't been updated since the project began in 1998) and exists for historical purposes only. If there are any pages on this archive site that you think should be added back to www.mozilla.org, please file a bug.

Skip to main content

You are here: Known Vulnerabilities in Mozilla Products (Thunderbird 2.0.0.12) > MFSA 2008-12

Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2008-12

Title: Heap buffer overflow in external MIME bodies
Impact: Critical
Announced: February 26, 2008
Reporter: regenrecht, iDefense
Products: Thunderbird, SeaMonkey

Fixed in: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12
  SeaMonkey 1.1.8

Description

Security research firm iDefense reported that researcher regenrecht discovered a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in Mozilla mail code which could potentially allow an attacker to run arbitrary code. 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.

Workaround

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.

References