CVE-2008-4070
HIGH · CVSS 10.0EPSS 7.4%EU EUVD
Heap-based buffer overflow in Mozilla Thunderbird before 2.0.0.17 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long header in a news article, related to "canceling [a] newsgroup message" and "cancelled newsgroup messages."
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 10.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 7.4% (94th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-4055)
- Published
- September 27, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-4055 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
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- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
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- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / thunderbird
- mozilla / thunderbird
- mozilla / thunderbird
- mozilla / thunderbird
- mozilla / thunderbird
- mozilla / thunderbird
- mozilla / thunderbird
- mozilla / thunderbird
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- mozilla / thunderbird
and 22 more…
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00005.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32010
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32025
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32044
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32082
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32092
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32196
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33433
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33434
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34501
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.379422
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.412123
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1696
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1697
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:206
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-46.html(Patch)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0908.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31411(Patch)
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020948
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-647-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425152(Exploit)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45426
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10933
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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