CVE-2010-0163

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-03-23 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Mozilla Thunderbird before 2.0.0.24 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.19 process e-mail attachments with a parser that performs casts and line termination incorrectly, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted message, related to message indexing.

Affected products

Mozilla Seamonkey: through 1.1.18; 1.0, 1.0-alpha, 1.0-beta, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3 (+26)
Mozilla Thunderbird: through 2.0.0.23; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+52)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/38977
http://secunia.com/advisories/39001
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-07.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0499.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38831
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-915-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0648
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1556
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505221
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/56993
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10805

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