FrSIRT - Mozilla Thunderbird Attachment Extension and Type Spoofing Vulnerability / Exploit (Security Advisories)

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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 [...]

References

http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2006/0230
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300246
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2005-22/advisory/

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Andreas Sandblad

ChangeLog

2006-01-17 : Initial release

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