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 "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.

Score

CVSS 2.0 4.3 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2008-12-13

Last modified

2024-08-07

Weaknesses

CWE-399

Affected products

• Thunderbird (Mozilla)

References

• 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