CVE-2008-5430
Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.14 - Denial of Service via Large MIME Email Message
Title source: llmDescription
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.
References (4)
Core 4
Core References
Various Sources x_refsource_misc
http://mime.recurity.com/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/AttackIntro
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32869
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list
x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499038/100/0/threaded
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list
x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499045/100/0/threaded
Scores
EPSS
0.0101
EPSS Percentile
59.3%
Details
CWE
CWE-399
Status
published
Products (1)
mozilla/thunderbird
2.0.0.14
Published
Dec 13, 2008
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026