Out-of-bounds Read Affecting thunderbird package, versions <0:68.2.0-1.0.1.el8_0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
4.77% (93rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE8-THUNDERBIRD-2542695
  • published10 Apr 2022
  • disclosed4 Sept 2019

Introduced: 4 Sep 2019

CVE-2019-15903  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-776  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:8 thunderbird to version 0:68.2.0-1.0.1.el8_0 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2019-3237.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream thunderbird package and not the thunderbird package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

In libexpat before 2.2.8, crafted XML input could fool the parser into changing from DTD parsing to document parsing too early; a consecutive call to XML_GetCurrentLineNumber (or XML_GetCurrentColumnNumber) then resulted in a heap-based buffer over-read.

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