Published: 23/02/2007 Updated: 15/11/2008

CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 6.9 | Exploitability Score: 10

VMScore: 694

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

The enigmail extension prior to 0.94.2 does not properly handle large, encrypted file e-mail attachments, which allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (crash), as demonstrated with Mozilla Thunderbird.

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Debian Bug report logs - #406604 CVE-2006-5877: Enigmail crashes on inline gpg Packages: mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail, enigmail; Maintainer for mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail is (unknown); Maintainer for enigmail is Debian Mozilla Extension Maintainers <pkg-mozext-maintainers@listsaliothdebianorg>; Source for enigmail is src:enigma ...

Mikhail Markin reported that enigmail incorrectly handled memory allocations for certain large encrypted attachments This caused Thunderbird to crash and thus caused the entire message to be inaccessible ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://bugzilla.mozdev.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9730 http://enigmail.mozdev.org/changelog.html#enig0.94.2 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-427-1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22684 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=406604 https://usn.ubuntu.com/427-1/https://nvd.nist.gov

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