FKIE_CVE-2006-6505
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2006-12-20 01:28 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:33
Severity
Summary
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
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| mozilla | seamonkey | * | |
| mozilla | thunderbird | * |
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