CVE-2006-5877 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the Enigmail extension (versions prior to 0.94.2) for email clients like Mozilla Thunderbird, affecting various Ubuntu distributions. This flaw allows remote attackers to crash the application by sending large, encrypted email attachments. With a CVSS score of 7.8, it is considered high severity, requiring no authentication and having a low attack complexity, leading to a complete loss of availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 0.92.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:enigmail:enigmail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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