CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-5159

7.5 HIGH Published 2006-10-05 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-10-05
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

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 configurations

• mozilla firefox 0.8 • mozilla firefox 0.9 • mozilla firefox 0.9.1 • mozilla firefox 0.9.2 • mozilla firefox 0.9.3 • mozilla firefox 0.10 • mozilla firefox 0.10.1 • mozilla firefox 1.0 • mozilla firefox 1.0.1 • mozilla firefox 1.0.2 • mozilla firefox 1.0.3 • mozilla firefox 1.0.4 • mozilla firefox 1.0.5 • mozilla firefox 1.0.6 • mozilla firefox 1.0.7 • mozilla firefox 1.0.8 • mozilla firefox 1.5 • mozilla firefox 1.5.0.1 • mozilla firefox 1.5.0.2 • mozilla firefox 1.5.3 • mozilla firefox 1.5.4 • mozilla firefox 1.5.5 • mozilla firefox 1.5.6 • mozilla firefox 1.5.7 • mozilla firefox 1.5.8 • mozilla firefox 2.0 • mozilla firefox preview release

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