01 Record
CVE-2008-4070
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
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: redhat
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 7.35% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 94.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2008-09-27 00:00Z18 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 10:00Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2008-09-12
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 84044b95016b592905475388b94da7eafa6dae38db08ba001f2b1493b191c6a8
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- secunia.com32025http://secunia.com/advisories/32025
- www.debian.orgDSA-1697http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1697
- bugzilla.mozilla.orghttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425152
- www.mandriva.comMDVSA-2008:206http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:206
- secunia.com32010http://secunia.com/advisories/32010
- www.vupen.comADV-2009-0977http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977
- lists.opensuse.orgSUSE-SA:2008:050http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00005.html
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.commozilla-newsgroupmessage-bo(45426)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45426
- secunia.com32196http://secunia.com/advisories/32196
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:10933https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10933
- secunia.com33433http://secunia.com/advisories/33433
- slackware.comSSA:2008-269-02http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.379422
- www.securitytracker.com1020948http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020948
- sunsolve.sun.com256408http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1
- secunia.com32092http://secunia.com/advisories/32092
- www.debian.orgDSA-1696http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1696
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-647-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-647-1
- www.mozilla.orghttp://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-46.html
- secunia.com33434http://secunia.com/advisories/33434
- slackware.comSSA:2008-270-01http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.412123
- secunia.com32044http://secunia.com/advisories/32044
- www.redhat.comRHSA-2008:0908http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0908.html
- www.securityfocus.com31411http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31411
- secunia.com34501http://secunia.com/advisories/34501
- secunia.com32082http://secunia.com/advisories/32082