CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-0236
5.1 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2006-01-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.1 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-94
Description
GUI display truncation vulnerability in Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2, 1.0.6, and 1.0.7 allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via an attachment with a filename containing a large number of spaces ending with a dangerous extension that is not displayed by Thunderbird, along with an inconsistent Content-Type header, which could be used to trick a user into downloading dangerous content by dragging or saving the attachment.
Affected configurations
• mozilla thunderbird 1.0
• mozilla thunderbird 1.0.1
• mozilla thunderbird 1.0.2
• mozilla thunderbird 1.0.5
• mozilla thunderbird 1.0.6
• mozilla thunderbird 1.0.7
• mozilla thunderbird 1.5
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code weakness
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/15907 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2005-22/advisory Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:021 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/422148/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16271 Patch
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0230 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300246 bugzilla.mozilla.org
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24164 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/15907 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2005-22/advisory Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:021 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/422148/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16271 Patch
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0230 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300246 bugzilla.mozilla.org
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24164 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com