PT-2006-6462 · Mozilla · Firefox

Published 2006-11-07 · Updated 2024-08-07 · CVE-2006-5783

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.8

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Firefox version 1.5.0.7

Description: A potential issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a crash, via a long URL in an A tag. However, this issue has been disputed by several vendors who could not reproduce the report, suggesting the issue may not be related to Firefox due to the scope of the impact, which includes system freeze.

Recommendations: For Firefox version 1.5.0.7, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Related Identifiers

CVE-2006-5783

Affected Products

Firefox

References · 5

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-5783 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/450730/100/0/threaded · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/450476/100/0/threaded · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/450424/100/0/threaded · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/450398/100/0/threaded · Note