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CVE-2006-2779

Date: June 2, 2006

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.

Severity Score

8.1

Related Resources (65)

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/446657/100/200/threaded

Url: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-32.html

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1159

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435795/100/0/threaded

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1118

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3488

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0611.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/21532

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/446658/100/200/threaded

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/21336

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0610.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/21654

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0594.html

Url: https://usn.ubuntu.com/297-1/

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3749

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0578.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/22065

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3748

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/21176

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/22066

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/20561

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/21210

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/21178

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/21134

Url: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-200387-1

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1120

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/20376

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/21269

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-2779

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1160

Url: https://usn.ubuntu.com/323-1/

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/21183

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/21188

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1134

Url: http://securitytracker.com/id?1016214

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2006-2779

Url: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102943-1

Url: http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-153A.html

Url: http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-21.xml

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/20709

Url: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26843

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0083

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/21631

Url: https://usn.ubuntu.com/297-3/

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/21634

Url: https://usn.ubuntu.com/296-2/

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/21270

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/20382

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/27216

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2006-2779

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0609.html

Url: http://securitytracker.com/id?1016202

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/21607

Url: https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9762

Url: https://usn.ubuntu.com/296-1/

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/21324

Url: http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-12.xml

Url: http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/466673

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:143

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:145

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:146

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18228

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2106

Url: http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_35_mozilla.html

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2006-2779

Severity Score

8.1

Weakness Type (CWE)

Code Injection

CWE-94

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	8.1
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	9.3
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	COMPLETE
Integrity (I):	COMPLETE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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