Memory Corruption Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird
CVE-2006-0749

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Key Information:

Vendor

Mozilla
Status
Firefox
Mozilla Suite
Seamonkey
Thunderbird
Vendor
CVE Published:
14 April 2006

What is CVE-2006-0749?

The vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird is triggered by a specific sequence of HTML tags, which can lead to memory corruption. This allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by crashing the application. In some cases, it could also lead to the execution of arbitrary code, posing a significant risk to users who interact with malicious web content or emails.

References

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-18...
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https://usn.ubuntu.com/275-1/
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https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/...
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EPSS Score

40% chance of being exploited in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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