cve-2006-0236
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2006-01-18 01:00
Modified
2024-08-07 16:25
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
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.
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