Mozilla Thunderbird up to 1.5 internal memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Mozilla Thunderbird up to 1.5. The impacted element is the function internal. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2006-1734. There is no available exploit. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Thunderbird up to 1.5 (Mail Client Software). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects the function internal. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird 1.x before 1.5 and 1.0.x before 1.0.8, Mozilla Suite before 1.7.13, and SeaMonkey before 1.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by using the Object.watch method to access the "clone parent" internal function.

The bug was discovered 04/13/2006. The weakness was presented 04/14/2006 by Georgi Guninski (TippingPoint) with TippingPoint and the Zero Day Initiative (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at us-cert.gov. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2006-1734 since 04/12/2006. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $25k-$100k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 21993 (CentOS 4 : firefox (CESA-2006:0328)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CentOS Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 117722 (CentOS Security Update for Firefox (CESA-2006:0328)).

Upgrading to version 1.x eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 3977.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (25816), Tenable (21993), SecurityFocus (BID 17516†), OSVDB (24667†) and Secunia (SA19631†). See VDB-2162, VDB-2161, VDB-2158 and VDB-2157 for similar entries. Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Physical: No
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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Nessus ID: 21993
Nessus Name: CentOS 4 : firefox (CESA-2006:0328)
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OpenVAS ID: 56664
OpenVAS Name: Debian Security Advisory DSA 1044-1 (mozilla-firefox)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Thunderbird 1.x
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mozilla.org

Advisory: us-cert.gov
Researcher: Georgi Guninski (TippingPoint)
Organization: TippingPoint and the Zero Day Initiative
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2006-1734 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2006-1734
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-29663

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X-Force: 25816
SecurityFocus: 17516 - Mozilla Suite, Firefox, SeaMonkey, and Thunderbird Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 19631 - Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 24667 - CVE-2006-1734 - Mozilla - Multiple Products - Code Execution Issue
Vulnerability Center: 11223 - Various Mozilla Web Browsers Remote Code Execution via the Object.watch Method, Medium
Vupen: ADV-2006-1356

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/12/2015 12:19
Updated: 01/20/2025 07:48
Changes: 03/12/2015 12:19 (84), 06/16/2019 18:26 (9), 01/20/2025 07:48 (19)
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