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Mozilla Thunderbird Attachment Extension and Type Spoofing Vulnerability

Title : Mozilla Thunderbird Attachment Extension and Type Spoofing Vulnerability
Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2006-0230
CVE ID : CVE-2006-0236
Rated as : Low Risk

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2006-01-17

Advisory Details

Description

Affected Products

Solution

References

Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Mozilla Thunderbird, which could be exploited by remote attackers to trick users into executing a malicious file [...]

Affected Products

Mozilla Thunderbird version 1.0.7 (Windows) and prior

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Andreas Sandblad

ChangeLog

2006-01-17 : Initial release

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