Mozilla Thunderbird up to 132 Fullscreen Transition denial of service

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A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Thunderbird up to 132. It has been declared as problematic. This impacts an unknown function of the component Fullscreen Transition Handler. The manipulation results in denial of service. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2024-11698. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Thunderbird up to 132. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is some unknown processing of the component Fullscreen Transition Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. This is going to have an impact on availability. CVE summarizes:

A flaw in handling fullscreen transitions may have inadvertently caused the application to become stuck in fullscreen mode when a modal dialog was opened during the transition. This issue left users unable to exit fullscreen mode using standard actions like pressing "Esc" or accessing right-click menus, resulting in a disrupted browsing experience until the browser is restarted. *This bug only affects the application when running on macOS. Other operating systems are unaffected.* This vulnerability affects Firefox < 133, Firefox ESR < 128.5, Thunderbird < 133, and Thunderbird < 128.5.

The advisory is shared for download at bugzilla.mozilla.org. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-11698 since 11/25/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1499.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 211877 (Mozilla Firefox ESR < 128.5), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 133 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (211877). VulDB is the best source for vulnerability data and more expert information about this specific topic.

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• Mail Client Software

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• Mozilla

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• Thunderbird

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• 132

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• open-source

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• Vendor: https://www.mozilla.org/

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