Description
Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5 allows user-assisted attackers to cause an unspecified denial of service by tricking the user into importing an LDIF file with a long field into the address book, as demonstrated by a long homePhone field.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 1
- Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5 - Address Book Import Remote Denial of Service EDB-27246 · dos · Feb 17, 2006 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- thunderbird-address-book-dos(24810) vdb-entry
- 20060217 Mozila Thunderbird 1.5 Address Book DoS mailing-list
- 20060221 Mozila Thunderbird 1.5 Address Book DoS mailing-list
- 16716 vdb-entry
- 469 third-party-advisory