National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-6505

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA06-354A

Name: TA06-354A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-354A.html

US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#887332

Name: VU#887332

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/887332

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-883

Hyperlink:https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-883

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2008-0083

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0083

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2007-0573

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0573

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2006-5068

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5068

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-400-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-400-1

External Source: BID

Name: 21668

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21668

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20070102 rPSA-2006-0234-2 firefox thunderbird

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/455728/100/200/threaded

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SA:2007:006

Hyperlink:http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_06_mozilla.html

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SA:2006:080

Hyperlink:http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_80_mozilla.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-74.html

Hyperlink:http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-74.html

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200701-04

Hyperlink:http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200701-04.xml

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200701-03

Hyperlink:http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200701-03.xml

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1017420

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1017420

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1017419

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1017419

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 23692

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/23692

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 23672

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/23672

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 23618

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/23618

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 23601

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/23601

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 23598

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/23598

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 23591

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/23591

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 23545

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/23545

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 23514

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/23514

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 23468

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/23468

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 23439

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/23439

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 23433

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/23433

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 23422

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/23422

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 23420

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/23420

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2006:0760

Hyperlink:http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0760.html

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2006:0759

Hyperlink:http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0759.html

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11565

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11565

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2007-004

Hyperlink:http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2338

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2006-1491

Hyperlink:http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2297

External Source: SGI

Name: 20061202-01-P

Hyperlink:ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20061202-01-P.asc

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20061222 rPSA-2006-0234-1 firefox

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/455145/100/0/threaded

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDKSA-2007:011

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:011

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-1265

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1265

External Source: SUNALERT

Name: 102800

Hyperlink:http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102800-1

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 24390

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/24390

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 24108

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/24108

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11565

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11565