aru Posted January 25, 2006 Report Share Posted January 25, 2006 Mandriva Advisories MDKSA-2006:021 : mozilla-thunderbird Updated mozilla-thunderbird packages fix vulnerability January 25th, 2006 GUI display truncation vulnerability in Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2, 1.0.6, and 1.0.7 allows user-complicit attackers to execute arbitrary code via an attachment with a filename containing a large number of spaces ending with a dangerous extension that is not displayed by Thunderbird, along with an inconsistent Content-Type header, which could be used to trick a user into downloading dangerous content by dragging or saving the attachment. The updated packages have been patched to correct this problem. The released versions of Mandriva GNU/Linux affected are: 2006.0Full information about this advisory, including the updated packages, is available at: wwwnew.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:021 Other references: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-0236 Posted automatically by aru (mdksec2mub v: mdksec2mub,v 0.15 2005/11/24 16:53:12 aru Exp aru $) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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