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CVE-2006-6505 Detail

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.


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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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

Weakness Enumeration

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2006-6505
NVD Published Date:
12/19/2006
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.