Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package thunderbird  (opens in a new tab)


Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
93.61% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1204-THUNDERBIRD-650924
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed1 Feb 2012

Introduced: 1 Feb 2012

CVE-2011-3659  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream thunderbird package and not the thunderbird package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Use-after-free vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.26 and 4.x through 9.0, Thunderbird before 3.1.18 and 5.0 through 9.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.7 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors related to incorrect AttributeChildRemoved notifications that affect access to removed nsDOMAttribute child nodes.