CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-5783
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2006-11-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Description
Firefox 1.5.0.7 on Kubuntu Linux allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long URL in an A tag. NOTE: this issue has been disputed by several vendors, who could not reproduce the report. In addition, the scope of the impact - system freeze - suggests an issue that is not related to Firefox. Due to this impact, CVE concurs with the dispute
Affected configurations
• mozilla firefox 1.5.0.7
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450398/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450424/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450476/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450730/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450398/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450424/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450476/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450730/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com