CVE-2006-5159

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"

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29317

http://www.securitypronews.com/insiderreports/insider/spn-49-20061003FirefoxVulnerabilityClaimWasAJoke.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20294

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20282

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447497/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447493/100/0/threaded

http://securitytracker.com/id?1016962

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1678

http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2006/10/02/update-possible-vulnerability-reported-at-toorcon/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3

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