PT-2006-2729 · Mozilla+2 · Firefox+5

Alden Dsouza · Published 2006-04-14 · Updated 2018-10-18 · CVE-2006-1737

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

9.3

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Mozilla Firefox versions 1.x before 1.5 Mozilla Thunderbird versions 1.x before 1.5 and 1.0.x before 1.0.8 Mozilla Suite versions prior to 1.7.13 SeaMonkey versions prior to 1.0

Description: The issue is related to an integer overflow that can be triggered by remote attackers using JavaScript with a large regular expression, potentially leading to a denial of service (crash) and possibly the execution of arbitrary bytecode.

Recommendations: For Mozilla Firefox versions 1.x before 1.5, update to version 1.5 or later. For Mozilla Thunderbird versions 1.x before 1.5, update to version 1.5 or later. For Mozilla Thunderbird versions 1.0.x before 1.0.8, update to version 1.0.8 or later. For Mozilla Suite versions prior to 1.7.13, update to version 1.7.13 or later. For SeaMonkey versions prior to 1.0, update to version 1.0 or later.

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-189

Related Identifiers

CVE-2006-1737

DSA-1044-1

DSA-1046-1

DSA-1051-1

HPSBUX02122

RHSA-2006:0328

RHSA-2006:0329

RHSA-2006:0330

RHSA-2006_0328

RHSA-2006_0329

RHSA-2006_0330

Affected Products

Hp-Ux

Firefox

Suite

Thunderbird

Red Hat

Seamonkey

References · 117

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• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1736 · Security Note
• http://redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-April/msg00153.html · Vendor Advisory
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