CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2006-5159

Published: Oct 05, 2006 | Modified: Apr 11, 2024
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

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

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Firefox Mozilla 0.8 (including) 0.8 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 0.9 (including) 0.9 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 0.9-rc (including) 0.9-rc (including)
Firefox Mozilla 0.9.1 (including) 0.9.1 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 0.9.2 (including) 0.9.2 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 0.9.3 (including) 0.9.3 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 0.10 (including) 0.10 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 0.10.1 (including) 0.10.1 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.0 (including) 1.0 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.0.1 (including) 1.0.1 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.0.2 (including) 1.0.2 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.0.3 (including) 1.0.3 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.0.4 (including) 1.0.4 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.0.5 (including) 1.0.5 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.0.6 (including) 1.0.6 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.0.7 (including) 1.0.7 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.0.8 (including) 1.0.8 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.5 (including) 1.5 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.5-beta1 (including) 1.5-beta1 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.5-beta2 (including) 1.5-beta2 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.5.0.1 (including) 1.5.0.1 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.5.0.2 (including) 1.5.0.2 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.5.3 (including) 1.5.3 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.5.4 (including) 1.5.4 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.5.5 (including) 1.5.5 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.5.6 (including) 1.5.6 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.5.7 (including) 1.5.7 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.5.8 (including) 1.5.8 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 2.0-beta_1 (including) 2.0-beta_1 (including)
Firefox Mozilla preview_release (including) preview_release (including)

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