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Thunderbird DoS attacks via malformed MIME emails (Windows)
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
Denial of Service
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
4.3
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
14 years ago
Modified
Modified
4 years ago
Summary
The host is running Mozilla Thunderbird which is prone to a denial of service vulnerability.
Insight
Insight
Flaw is due to improper handling of multipart/mixed e-mail messages with many MIME parts and e-mail messages with many Content-type: message/rfc822 headers.
Affected Software
Affected Software
Thunderbird version 2.0.0.14 and prior on Windows.
Solution
Solution
Upgrade to Thunderbird version 3.0.4 or later