CVE-2006-6505

CVE Details

Release Date:	2006-12-20
Impact:	Critical	What is this?

Description

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in Mozilla Thunderbird before 1.5.0.9 and SeaMonkey before 1.0.7 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) external message modies with long Content-Type headers or (2) long RFC2047-encoded (MIME non-ASCII) headers.

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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	6.8
Vector String:	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Network
Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	Partial
Integrity Impact:	Partial
Availability Impact:	Partial

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (devhelp)	ELSA-2006-0759	2006-12-20
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (seamonkey)	ELSA-2006-0759	2006-12-20
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (thunderbird)	ELSA-2006-0760	2006-12-20