CVE-2008-5430

Published Dec 13, 2008

Last updated 6 years ago

Overview

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.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 4.3
Impact score: 2.9
Exploitability score: 8.6
Vector string: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-399

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:2.0.0.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "4DCDAA51-4AA3-4EC4-B441-71FB3C3304F7"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References