Thunderbird ESR < 60.7.XXX - 'parser_get_next_char' Heap-Based Buffer Overflow
X41 D-Sec GmbH Security Advisory: X41-2019-002 Heap-based buffer overflow in Thunderbird ========================================= Severity Rating: High Confirmed Affected Versions: All versions affected Confirmed Patched Versions: Thunderbird ESR 60.7.XXX Vendor: Thunderbird Vendor URL: https://www.thunderbird.net/ Vendor Reference: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1553820 Vector: Incoming mail with calendar attachment Credit: X41 D-SEC GmbH, Luis Merino Status: Public CVE: CVE-2019-11703 CWE: 122 CVSS Score: 7.8 CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O Advisory-URL: https://www.x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2019-002-thunderbird Summary and Impact ================== A heap-based buffer overflow has been identified in the Thunderbird email client. The issue is present in the libical implementation, which was forked from upstream libical version 0.47. The issue can be triggered remotely, when an attacker sends an specially crafted calendar attachment and does not require user interaction. It might be used by a remote attacker to crash or gain remote code execution in the client system. This issue was initially reported by Brandon Perry here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1281041 and fixed in libical upstream, but was never fixed in Thunderbird. X41 did not perform a full test or audit on the software. Product Description =================== Thunderbird is a free and open source email, newsfeed, chat, and calendaring client, that's easy to set up and customize. Analysis ======== A heap-based buffer overflow in icalparser.c parser_get_next_char() can be triggered while parsing a calendar attachment containing a malformed or specially crafted string. The issue initially manifests with out of bounds read, but we don't discard it could later lead to out of bounds write. It is expected that an attacker can exploit this vulnerability to achieve remote code execution. Proof of Concept ================ A reproducer ical file can be found in https://github.com/x41sec/advisories/tree/master/X41-2019-002 Workarounds =========== A fix is available from upstream. Alternatively, libical can be replaced by icaljs, a JavaScript implementation of ical parsing, by setting calendar.icaljs = true in Thunderbird configuration. Timeline ======== 2016-06-20 Issue reported by Brandon Perry to the vendor 2019-05-23 Issues reported to the vendor 2019-05-23 Vendor reply 2019-06-12 CVE IDs assigned 2019-06-13 Patched Version released 2019-06-13 Advisory released About X41 D-SEC GmbH ==================== X41 is an expert provider for application security services. Having extensive industry experience and expertise in the area of information security, a strong core security team of world class security experts enables X41 to perform premium security services. Fields of expertise in the area of application security are security centered code reviews, binary reverse engineering and vulnerability discovery. Custom research and a IT security consulting and support services are core competencies of X41. Proof of Concept: https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb-bin-sploits/-/raw/main/bin-sploits/47003.zip |