CVE Vulnerability

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.

4.3 /10

CVSS v2.0 :

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 8.6 / Impact : 2.9

Attack Vector

Attack Complexity

Privileges Required

User Interaction

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact PARTIAL

Scope

References
Link Resource
http://mime.recurity.com/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/AttackIntro
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32869
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499045/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499038/100/0/threaded
Configurations

Configuration 1

cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:2.0.0.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Information

Published : 2008-12-13 08:40

Updated : 2018-10-30 04:25

NVD link : CVE-2008-5430

Mitre link : CVE-2008-5430

Products Affected
No products.
CWE
CWE-399

NVD-CWE-noinfo