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


PlatformErrataRelease Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (thunderbird)ELSA-2006-06112006-12-07



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