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CVE-2006-5159

Published: Oct 05, 2006 | Modified: Apr 09, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-5159
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/NVD-Other.html

Stack-based buffer overflow in Mozilla Firefox allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors involving JavaScript. NOTE: the vendor and original researchers have released a follow-up comment disputing the severity of this issue, in which the researcher states that we mentioned that there was a previously known Firefox vulnerability that could result in a stack overflow ending up in remote code execution. However, the code we presented did not in fact do this… I have not succeeded in making this code do anything more than cause a crash and eat up system resources

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
FirefoxMozilla0.8 (including)0.8 (including)
FirefoxMozilla0.9 (including)0.9 (including)
FirefoxMozilla0.9-rc (including)0.9-rc (including)
FirefoxMozilla0.9.1 (including)0.9.1 (including)
FirefoxMozilla0.9.2 (including)0.9.2 (including)
FirefoxMozilla0.9.3 (including)0.9.3 (including)
FirefoxMozilla0.10 (including)0.10 (including)
FirefoxMozilla0.10.1 (including)0.10.1 (including)
FirefoxMozilla1.0 (including)1.0 (including)
FirefoxMozilla1.0.1 (including)1.0.1 (including)
FirefoxMozilla1.0.2 (including)1.0.2 (including)
FirefoxMozilla1.0.3 (including)1.0.3 (including)
FirefoxMozilla1.0.4 (including)1.0.4 (including)
FirefoxMozilla1.0.5 (including)1.0.5 (including)
FirefoxMozilla1.0.6 (including)1.0.6 (including)
FirefoxMozilla1.0.7 (including)1.0.7 (including)
FirefoxMozilla1.0.8 (including)1.0.8 (including)
FirefoxMozilla1.5 (including)1.5 (including)
FirefoxMozilla1.5-beta1 (including)1.5-beta1 (including)
FirefoxMozilla1.5-beta2 (including)1.5-beta2 (including)
FirefoxMozilla1.5.0.1 (including)1.5.0.1 (including)
FirefoxMozilla1.5.0.2 (including)1.5.0.2 (including)
FirefoxMozilla1.5.3 (including)1.5.3 (including)
FirefoxMozilla1.5.4 (including)1.5.4 (including)
FirefoxMozilla1.5.5 (including)1.5.5 (including)
FirefoxMozilla1.5.6 (including)1.5.6 (including)
FirefoxMozilla1.5.7 (including)1.5.7 (including)
FirefoxMozilla1.5.8 (including)1.5.8 (including)
FirefoxMozilla2.0-beta_1 (including)2.0-beta_1 (including)
FirefoxMozillapreview_release (including)preview_release (including)

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