CVE-2006-6505
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.8EPSS 4.3%EU EUVD
Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in Mozilla Thunderbird before 1.5.0.9 and SeaMonkey before 1.0.7 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) external message modies with long Content-Type headers or (2) long RFC2047-encoded (MIME non-ASCII) headers.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- EPSS score
- 4.3% (91th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2006-6488)
- Published
- December 20, 2006
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2006-6488 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / thunderbird
References
- ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20061202-01-P.asc
- http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2297
- http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2338
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0759.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0760.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23420
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23422
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23433
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23439
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23468
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23514
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23545
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23591
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23598
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23601
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23618
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23672
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23692
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24108
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24390
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017419
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017420
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102800-1
- http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1265
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200701-03.xml
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200701-04.xml
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/887332(US Government Resource)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:011
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-74.html
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_80_mozilla.html
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_06_mozilla.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455145/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455728/100/200/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21668
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-400-1
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-354A.html(US Government Resource)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5068
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0573
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0083
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-883
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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