CVE-2006-6505

critical

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.

References

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11565

https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-883

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0083

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0573

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5068

http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-354A.html

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-400-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21668

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455728/100/200/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455145/100/0/threaded

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_06_mozilla.html

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_80_mozilla.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-74.html

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:011

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/887332

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200701-04.xml

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200701-03.xml

http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1265

http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102800-1

http://securitytracker.com/id?1017420

http://securitytracker.com/id?1017419

http://secunia.com/advisories/24390

http://secunia.com/advisories/24108

http://secunia.com/advisories/23692

http://secunia.com/advisories/23672

http://secunia.com/advisories/23618

http://secunia.com/advisories/23601

http://secunia.com/advisories/23598

http://secunia.com/advisories/23591

http://secunia.com/advisories/23545

http://secunia.com/advisories/23514

http://secunia.com/advisories/23468

http://secunia.com/advisories/23439

http://secunia.com/advisories/23433

http://secunia.com/advisories/23422

http://secunia.com/advisories/23420

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0760.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0759.html

http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2338

http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2297

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2006-12-20

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical