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Ubuntu: USN-400-2 High: Firefox Browser Vulnerability Warning
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January 4, 2007
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
Summary
Topics Covered
security advisory
critical issue
Ubuntu
heap overflow
Mozilla Thunderbird
user privilege
email exploit
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