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Ubuntu: USN-400-2 High: Firefox Browser Vulnerability Warning

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Calendar Grey January 4, 2007
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Concerns in Thunderbird on Ubuntu permit arbitrary code execution via specially designed emails, jeopardizing user safety.
Georgi Guninski and David Bienvenu discovered that long Content-Type and RFC2047-encoded headers we vulnerable to heap overflows

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical issue Ubuntu heap overflow Mozilla Thunderbird user privilege email exploit

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References

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-400-1 January 04, 2007

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical issue Ubuntu heap overflow Mozilla Thunderbird user privilege email exploit

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