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thunderbird — security advisory
The crypto.signText function in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird before 1.5.0.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via certain optional Certificate Authority name arguments, which causes an invalid array index and triggers a buffer overflow.
- Products
- thunderbird
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1.5.0.4-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2006-2778
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 20:19 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The crypto.signText function in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird before 1.5.0.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via certain optional Certificate Authority name arguments, which causes an invalid array index and triggers a buffer overflow.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2006-2778
thunderbird
Fixed versions: 1.5.0.4-1
thunderbird
Fixed versions: 1.5.0.4-1
thunderbird
Fixed versions: 1.5.0.4-1
Complete source record
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