CVE-2006-2779

CVE Details

Release Date:	2006-06-02
Impact:	Critical	What is this?

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

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

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	9.3
Vector String:	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Network
Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None
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