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CVE Reference: CVE-2006-0236
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CVE-2006-0236

Description:
GUI display truncation vulnerability in Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2, 1.0.6, and 1.0.7 allows user-assisted 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.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/24164

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA15907

MISC
  http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2005-22/advisory

MANDRIVA
  http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:021

CONFIRM

BUGTRAQ
  http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/422148/100/0/threaded

BID
  16271


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