Mozilla Thunderbird up to 1.5 denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Mozilla Thunderbird up to 1.5. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. Performing a manipulation results in denial of service. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2006-1738. No exploit exists. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Mozilla Thunderbird up to 1.5 (Mail Client Software). This affects an unknown functionality. 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. The summary by CVE is:

Unspecified vulnerability in 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 cause a denial of service (crash) by changing the (1) -moz-grid and (2) -moz-grid-group display styles.

The bug was discovered 04/13/2006. The weakness was disclosed 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. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2006-1738 since 04/12/2006. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

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 $5k-$25k. 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 (25811), Tenable (21993), SecurityFocus (BID 17516†), OSVDB (24662†) and Secunia (SA19631†). The entries VDB-2162, VDB-2161, VDB-2158 and VDB-2157 are pretty similar. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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VulDB Meta Temp Score: 4.8

VulDB Base Score: 5.3
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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Physical: No
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Remote: Yes

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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-2006-1738 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2006-1738
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-29667

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X-Force: 25811
SecurityFocus: 17516 - Mozilla Suite, Firefox, SeaMonkey, and Thunderbird Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 19631 - Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 24662 - CVE-2006-1738 - Mozilla - Multiple Products - Unspecifed Issue
Vulnerability Center: 11226 - Various Mozilla Web Browsers Remote Denial of Service Attack by Changing the Display Styles, 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 (83), 06/16/2019 18:49 (9), 01/20/2025 07:48 (19)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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