A vulnerability has been identified in Mozilla Thunderbird, which could be exploited by remote attackers to trick users into executing a malicious file. This flaw is due to an error when displaying email attachments with specially crafted "Content-Type" headers and overly long filenames, which could be exploited by attackers to spoof file types and extensions and trick users into opening and executing malicious content.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Andreas Sandblad
ChangeLog
2006-01-17 : Initial release
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