Detections
Analytics
CVE-2008-5430
high
Description
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
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32869
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499045/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499038/100/0/threaded
http://mime.recurity.com/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/AttackIntro