Bug 464041 (CVE-2008-4070)

Summary:	CVE-2008-4070 Thunderbird cancelled newsgrop messages
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	vdanen
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-4070
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Description Josh Bressers 2008-09-26 01:00:07 UTC

From MFSA 2008-46:
Georgi Guninski reported a buffer overflow in the handling of cancelled
newsgroup messages. The error was caused by too small a heap buffer being
allocated to store message header information. This buffer could be overrun
by an attacker using a specially crafted message which could crash the mail
reader and potentially be used to run arbitrary code on the victim's
computer.

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2008-11-21 10:55:50 UTC

thunderbird-2.0.0.18-1.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2008-11-21 11:03:36 UTC

thunderbird-2.0.0.18-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 3 Vincent Danen 2010-04-19 22:03:33 UTC

This vulnerability was resolved in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, and Optional Productivity Applications version 5 via RHSA-2008:0908:

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0908.html