medium4.3
CVE-2008-5430
Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.14 does not properly handle (1) multipart/mixed e-mail messages with many MIME parts and possibly (2) e-mail messages with many "Conten…
Impact
Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.14 does not properly handle (1) multipart/mixed e-mail messages with many MIME parts and possibly (2) e-mail messages with many "Content-type: message/rfc822;" headers, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption or other resource consumption) via a large e-mail message, a related issue to CVE-2006-1173.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Mozilla | Thunderbird | Version 2.0.0.14 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- http://mime.recurity.com/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/AttackIntro
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499038/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499045/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32869
- http://mime.recurity.com/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/AttackIntro
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499038/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499045/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32869