CVE-2008-5430

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS4.3
Exploit probability—
ProductMozilla Thunderbird
PublishedDec 13, 2008
First seenDec 13, 2008

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
mozilla thunderbird2.0.0.14—

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