PT-2008-6547 · Mozilla · Thunderbird

Published 2008-12-13 · Updated 2018-10-30 · CVE-2008-5430

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Thunderbird version 2.0.14

Description The issue is related to the handling of certain e-mail messages. Specifically, it involves (1) multipart/mixed e-mail messages with many MIME parts and possibly (2) e-mail messages with many "Content-type: message/rfc822;" headers. This could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service, potentially through stack consumption or other resource consumption, by sending a large e-mail message.

Recommendations For Mozilla Thunderbird version 2.0.14, update to a newer version to mitigate the risk.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-5430

Affected Products

Thunderbird

References · 5

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5430 · Security Note
• http://mime.recurity.com/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/AttackIntro · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/32869 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/499045/100/0/threaded · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/499038/100/0/threaded · Note