CVE-2006-2779

CVE Details

Release Date:

2006-06-02

Description

Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird before 1.5.0.4 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via (1) nested option tags in a select tag, (2) a DOMNodeRemoved mutation event, (3) Content-implemented tree views, (4) BoxObjects, (5) the XBL implementation, (6) an iframe that attempts to remove itself, which leads to memory corruption.

See more information about CVE-2006-2779 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	9.3	Base Metrics:	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector:	Network	Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None required	Confidentiality Impact:	Complete
Integrity Impact:	Complete	Availability Impact:	Complete

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (thunderbird)	ELSA-2006-0611	2006-12-07

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