CVE-2006-5877

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

23/02/2007

Last modified:

09/04/2025

Description

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

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.80 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0

7.80

Severity 2.0

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:ubuntu:ubuntu_linux:::powerpc:::::*		5.10 (including)
cpe:2.3:o:ubuntu:ubuntu_linux:::powerpc:::::*		6.06_lts (including)
cpe:2.3:o:ubuntu:ubuntu_linux:::powerpc:::::*		6.10 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:enigmail:enigmail::::::::		0.92.0 (including)

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2006-5877

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools