Mozilla, Firefox and Thunderbird SendUidl POP3 buffer overflow

mozilla-senduidl-pop3-bo (16869) The risk level is classified as HighHigh Risk

Description:

Mozilla is an open-source Web browser, developed by the Mozilla project. Mozilla versions prior to 1.7, Firefox versions prior to 0.9, and Thunderbird versions prior to 0.7 running on Microsoft Windows are vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow in the SendUidl function, caused by improper bounds checking of user-supplied input. By sending a specially-crafted message, a remote attacker in control of a malicious POP3 mail server, could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system.


Consequences:

Gain Access

Remedy:

For Mozilla:
Upgrade to the latest version (1.7 or later), available from the Mozilla Web site. See References.

For Firefox:
Upgrade to the latest version (0.9 or later), available from the Mozilla Web site. See References.

For Thunderbird:
Upgrade to the latest version (0.7.2 or later), available from the Mozilla Web site. See References.

For Red Hat Linux:
Upgrade to the latest mozilla package, as listed below. Refer to RHSA-2004:421-17 for more information. See References.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 2.1), ES (v. 2.1), WS (v. 2.1), and Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 for the Itanium Processor: 1.4.3-2.1.2 or later
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 3), ES (v. 3), WS (v. 3), Desktop: 1.4.3-3.0.2.x86_64 or later

For Slackware Linux:
Upgrade to the latest mozilla package, as listed below. Refer to slackware-security Mailing List, Tue, 10 Aug 2004 14:17:12 -0700 (PDT) for more information. See References.

Slackware Linux 9.1: 1.4.3-i486-1 or later
Slackware Linux 10.0 and -current: 1.7.2-i486-1 or later

For SuSE Linux:
Apply the update for this vulnerability, as listed in SuSE Security Announcement SUSE-SA:2004:036. See References.

For Conectiva Linux:
Upgrade to the latest mozilla package, as listed below. Refer to Conectiva Linux Security Announcement CLSA-2004:877 for more information. See References.

Conectiva Linux 10.0: 1.7.3-60868U10_1cl or later
Conectiva Linux 9: 1.7.3-27852U90_4cl or later

For Sun Solaris:
Apply the appropriate patch for your system, as listed below. Refer to Sun Alert ID: 57701 for more information. See References.

SPARC
Solaris 8: 117765-02 or later
Solaris 9: 117767-02 or later

x86 Platform
Solaris 8: 117766-02 or later
Solaris 9: 117768-02 or later

Linux
Sun Java Desktop System (JDS) 2003: 118937-01 or later
Sun Java Desktop System (JDS) Release 2: 118492-02 or later

For other distributions:
Contact your vendor for upgrade or patch information.

References:

Platforms Affected:

  • Conectiva Linux 10
  • Conectiva Linux 9.0
  • Mozilla Firefox 0.7
  • Mozilla Firefox 0.8
  • Mozilla Mozilla 1.0
  • Mozilla Mozilla 1.0 rc1
  • Mozilla Mozilla 1.0.1
  • Mozilla Mozilla 1.0.2
  • Mozilla Mozilla 1.1
  • Mozilla Mozilla 1.1 Beta
  • Mozilla Mozilla 1.1 Alpha
  • Mozilla Mozilla 1.2
  • Mozilla Mozilla 1.2 Alpha
  • Mozilla Mozilla 1.2 Beta
  • Mozilla Mozilla 1.2.1
  • Mozilla Mozilla 1.3
  • Mozilla Mozilla 1.3.1
  • Mozilla Mozilla 1.4
  • Mozilla Mozilla 1.4 Alpha
  • Mozilla Mozilla 1.4 Beta
  • Mozilla Mozilla 1.4.1
  • Mozilla Mozilla 1.4.2
  • Mozilla Mozilla 1.4.4
  • Mozilla Mozilla 1.5
  • Mozilla Mozilla 1.5 Alpha
  • Mozilla Mozilla 1.5 rc1
  • Mozilla Mozilla 1.5 rc2
  • Mozilla Mozilla 1.5.1
  • Mozilla Mozilla 1.6 Alpha
  • Mozilla Mozilla 1.6
  • Mozilla Mozilla 1.6 Beta
  • Mozilla Thunderbird 0.1
  • Mozilla Thunderbird 0.2
  • Mozilla Thunderbird 0.3
  • Mozilla Thunderbird 0.4
  • Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5
  • Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6
  • RedHat Enterprise Linux 2.1 WS
  • RedHat Enterprise Linux 2.1 ES
  • RedHat Enterprise Linux 2.1 AS
  • RedHat Enterprise Linux 2.1 AW
  • RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 WS
  • RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 ES
  • RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 AS
  • RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 Desktop
  • RedHat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 Itanium
  • Slackware Slackware Linux 10.0
  • Slackware Slackware Linux 9.1
  • Slackware Slackware Linux current
  • Sun JDS 2003
  • Sun JDS Release 2
  • Sun Solaris 8
  • Sun Solaris 9
  • SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8
  • SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9
  • SUSE SuSE Linux 8.1
  • SUSE SuSE Linux 8.2
  • SUSE SuSE Linux 9.0
  • SUSE SuSE Linux 9.1
  • SuSE SuSE Linux Desktop 1.0
  • SuSE SuSE SLES 9

Reported:

Aug 03, 2004

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