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CVE-2008-4070
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…
- 10.0HighCVSS base score
- 7.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 5.6% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
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."
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 15 days later
· 15 days later
Published
- 16 years later
· 16 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High10.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 7.4% · top 5.6% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 10.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
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- 32025 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- DSA-1697 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425152 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- MDVSA-2008:206 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- 32010 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2009-0977 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- SUSE-SA:2008:050 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- mozilla-newsgroupmessage-bo(45426) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 32196 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10933 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 33433 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- SSA:2008-269-02 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SLACKWAREx_transferred
- 1020948 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 256408 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTx_transferred
- 32092 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- DSA-1696 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- USN-647-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-46.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 33434 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- SSA:2008-270-01 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SLACKWAREx_transferred
- 32044 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- RHSA-2008:0908 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 31411 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 34501 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 32082 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2008-4055 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2008-4070)Record last updated .