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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Dec 13, 2008· Updated Jun 16, 2026

CVE-2008-5430

CVE-2008-5430

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 products

2
  • Mozilla Corporation/Thunderbird2 versions
    cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:2.0.0.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
    • cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:2.0.0.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • (no CPE)range: 2.0.14

Patches

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