CVE-2006-0236

Summary

GUI display truncation vulnerability in Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2, 1.0.6, and 1.0.7 allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via an attachment with a filename containing a large number of spaces ending with a dangerous extension that is not displayed by Thunderbird, along with an inconsistent Content-Type header, which could be used to trick a user into downloading dangerous content by dragging or saving the attachment.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• n/a

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16271
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:021
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24164
• http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2005-22/advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/422148/100/0/threaded
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300246
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0230
• http://secunia.com/advisories/15907

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16271
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:021
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24164
• http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2005-22/advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/422148/100/0/threaded
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300246
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0230
• http://secunia.com/advisories/15907

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