CVE-2008-4070: mozilla seamonkey

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2008-4070 is a high (CVSS 10.0) vulnerability in mozilla seamonkey. EPSS estimates a 7.35% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94.3% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Timeline

1. 27-09-2008
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 07-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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."

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.