Out-of-Bounds Affecting thunderbird package, versions <0:2.0.0.24-2.el5_4


Severity

Recommended
critical

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
44.77% (98th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-THUNDERBIRD-9873392
  • published28 Apr 2025
  • disclosed20 Nov 2009

Introduced: 20 Nov 2009

CVE-2009-0689  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:10 thunderbird to version 0:2.0.0.24-2.el5_4 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2010:0153.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream thunderbird package and not the thunderbird package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

Array index error in the (1) dtoa implementation in dtoa.c (aka pdtoa.c) and the (2) gdtoa (aka new dtoa) implementation in gdtoa/misc.c in libc, as used in multiple operating systems and products including in FreeBSD 6.4 and 7.2, NetBSD 5.0, OpenBSD 4.5, Mozilla Firefox 3.0.x before 3.0.15 and 3.5.x before 3.5.4, K-Meleon 1.5.3, SeaMonkey 1.1.8, and other products, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a large precision value in the format argument to a printf function, which triggers incorrect memory allocation and a heap-based buffer overflow during conversion to a floating-point number.

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