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MFSA2006-74 SeaMonkey: Mail header processing heap overflows (CVE-2006-6505)

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MFSA2006-74 SeaMonkey: Mail header processing heap overflows (CVE-2006-6505)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/19/2006
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/03/2012
Modified
02/13/2015

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-seamonkey-upgrade-1_0_7

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