Skip to content
Fencer Intel
medium 4.3

CVE-2010-0163 json

Mozilla Thunderbird before 2.0.0.24 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.19 process e-mail attachments with a parser that performs casts and line termi…

published 2010-03-22 16 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2010-0194

cvss
4.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.2%
EPSS 3.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 88%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Mozilla Thunderbird before 2.0.0.24 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.19 process e-mail attachments with a parser that performs casts and line termination incorrectly, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted message, related to message indexing.

Patch / fix

  • seamonkey RHEL 3 1.0.9-0.55.el3
  • seamonkey RHEL 4 1.0.9-58.el4_8
  • seamonkey-nss RHEL 3 1.0.9-0.55.el3
  • seamonkey-chat RHEL 3 1.0.9-0.55.el3
  • seamonkey-chat RHEL 4 1.0.9-58.el4_8
  • seamonkey-mail RHEL 3 1.0.9-0.55.el3
  • seamonkey-mail RHEL 4 1.0.9-58.el4_8
  • seamonkey-nspr RHEL 3 1.0.9-0.55.el3

red hat advisories RHSA-2010:0499RHSA-2010:0154RHSA-2010:0153

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2010-0163 updated cvss 6.8

seamonkey/thunderbird: crash when indexing certain messages with attachments

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 seamonkey 1.0.9-0.55.el3, seamonkey-nss 1.0.9-0.55.el3, seamonkey-chat 1.0.9-0.55.el3, seamonkey-mail 1.0.9-0.55.el3, seamonkey-nspr 1.0.9-0.55.el3, seamonkey-js-debugger 1.0.9-0.55.el3, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 seamonkey 1.0.9-0.55.el3, seamonkey-nss 1.0.9-0.55.el3, seamonkey-chat 1.0.9-0.55.el3, seamonkey-mail 1.0.9-0.55.el3, seamonkey-nspr 1.0.9-0.55.el3, seamonkey-js-debugger 1.0.9-0.55.el3, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 seamonkey 1.0.9-58.el4_8, thunderbird 1.5.0.12-25.el4, seamonkey-chat 1.0.9-58.el4_8, seamonkey-mail 1.0.9-58.el4_8, seamonkey-js-debugger 1.0.9-58.el4_8, seamonkey-dom-inspector 1.0.9-58.el4_8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2010:0499
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) thunderbird 2.0.0.24-2.el5_4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2010:0153
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 seamonkey 1.0.9-58.el4_8, thunderbird 1.5.0.12-25.el4, seamonkey-chat 1.0.9-58.el4_8, seamonkey-mail 1.0.9-58.el4_8, seamonkey-js-debugger 1.0.9-58.el4_8, seamonkey-dom-inspector 1.0.9-58.el4_8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 seamonkey 1.0.9-0.55.el3, seamonkey-nss 1.0.9-0.55.el3, seamonkey-chat 1.0.9-0.55.el3, seamonkey-mail 1.0.9-0.55.el3, seamonkey-nspr 1.0.9-0.55.el3, seamonkey-js-debugger 1.0.9-0.55.el3, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 seamonkey 1.0.9-58.el4_8, thunderbird 1.5.0.12-25.el4, seamonkey-chat 1.0.9-58.el4_8, seamonkey-mail 1.0.9-58.el4_8, seamonkey-js-debugger 1.0.9-58.el4_8, seamonkey-dom-inspector 1.0.9-58.el4_8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2010:0499
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server) thunderbird 2.0.0.24-2.el5_4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2010:0153
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 seamonkey 1.0.9-0.55.el3, seamonkey-nss 1.0.9-0.55.el3, seamonkey-chat 1.0.9-0.55.el3, seamonkey-mail 1.0.9-0.55.el3, seamonkey-nspr 1.0.9-0.55.el3, seamonkey-js-debugger 1.0.9-0.55.el3, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 seamonkey 1.0.9-58.el4_8, thunderbird 1.5.0.12-25.el4, seamonkey-chat 1.0.9-58.el4_8, seamonkey-mail 1.0.9-58.el4_8, seamonkey-js-debugger 1.0.9-58.el4_8, seamonkey-dom-inspector 1.0.9-58.el4_8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2010:0499

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.19% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.