cve-2006-5877
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2007-02-23 21:00
Modified
2024-08-07 20:04
Severity ?
Summary
The enigmail extension before 0.94.2 does not properly handle large, encrypted file e-mail attachments, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash), as demonstrated with Mozilla Thunderbird.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://bugzilla.mozdev.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9730
cve@mitre.orghttp://enigmail.mozdev.org/changelog.html#enig0.94.2
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22684
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-427-1Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://bugzilla.mozdev.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9730
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://enigmail.mozdev.org/changelog.html#enig0.94.2
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22684
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-427-1Patch
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