CVE-2006-6505

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.

6.8

CVSS

Severity: Medium

CVSS 2.0 •

EPSS 22.70% Top 5%

Vendor Advisory sun.com Vendor Advisory debian.org Vendor Advisory gentoo.org Vendor Advisory fedoranews.org Vendor Advisory redhat.com Vendor Advisory fedoranews.org Vendor Advisory sgi.com Vendor Advisory novell.com Vendor Advisory gentoo.org Vendor Advisory novell.com Vendor Advisory mandriva.com Vendor Advisory redhat.com Vendor Advisory ubuntu.com

Affected: n/a n/a

References

Link	Tags
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102800-1	vendor advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21668	vdb entry
http://secunia.com/advisories/23433	third party advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/23439	third party advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/23672	third party advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5068	vdb entry
http://secunia.com/advisories/23468	third party advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/23598	third party advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1265	vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/23692	third party advisory
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017420	vdb entry
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200701-04.xml	vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/24390	third party advisory
http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2297	vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/23422	third party advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/23591	third party advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0759.html	vendor advisory
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/887332	third party advisory us government resource
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0083	vdb entry
http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2338	vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/24108	third party advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/23420	third party advisory
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20061202-01-P.asc	vendor advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0573	vdb entry
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_80_mozilla.html	vendor advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455145/100/0/threaded	mailing list
http://secunia.com/advisories/23545	third party advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/23618	third party advisory
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200701-03.xml	vendor advisory
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-354A.html	third party advisory us government resource
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-74.html
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11565	vdb entry signature
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-883
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455728/100/200/threaded	mailing list
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017419	vdb entry
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_06_mozilla.html	vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/23601	third party advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:011	vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/23514	third party advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0760.html	vendor advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-400-1	vendor advisory

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2006-6505?: CVE-2006-6505 has been scored as a medium severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2006-6505?: To fix CVE-2006-6505, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2006-6505 being actively exploited in the wild?: It is possible that CVE-2006-6505 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~23% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.