Vulnerability Note VU#887332

Overview

Mozilla mail products contain a heap buffer overflow vulnerability in the way they process Content-Type headers. This may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system.

Description

Mozilla Thunderbird and SeaMonkey contain a buffer overflow vulnerability. Both applications fail to properly process long Content-Type headers in external message bodies.

Impact

A remote, unauthenticated attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system

Solution

Upgrade Mozilla has addressed these vulnerabilities in Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 and SeaMonkey 1.0.7.

Systems Affected (Learn More)

Vendor	Status	Date Notified	Date Updated
Mozilla	Affected	-	20 Dec 2006

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CVSS Metrics (Learn More)

Group	Score	Vector
Base	N/A	N/A
Temporal	N/A	N/A
Environmental	N/A	N/A

References

• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-74.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23439/
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23591/
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23598/
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23514/
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21668

Credit

This vulnerability was reported in Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2006-74. Mozilla credits Georgi Guninski.

This document was written by Katie Steiner.

Other Information

• CVE IDs: CVE-2006-6505
• Date Public: 19 Dec 2006
• Date First Published: 20 Dec 2006
• Date Last Updated: 31 Jan 2007
• Severity Metric: 26.72
• Document Revision: 25