CVE-2008-4070

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-09-27 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

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."

Affected products

Mozilla Seamonkey: through 1.1.11; 1.0, 1.0-beta, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4 (+10)
Mozilla Thunderbird: through 2.0.0.16; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+46)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00005.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/32010
http://secunia.com/advisories/32025
http://secunia.com/advisories/32044
http://secunia.com/advisories/32082
http://secunia.com/advisories/32092
http://secunia.com/advisories/32196
http://secunia.com/advisories/33433
http://secunia.com/advisories/33434
http://secunia.com/advisories/34501
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.379422
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.412123

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