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CVE-2008-5430

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.3 Published: 2008-12-13 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.14 does not properly handle (1) multipart/mixed e-mail messages with many MIME parts and possibly (2) e-mail messages with many "Content-type: message/rfc822;" headers, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption or other resource consumption) via a large e-mail message, a related issue to CVE-2006-1173.

Affected Platforms

Mozilla Thunderbird

Weakness Type

CWE-399, NVD-CWE-noinfo

References