Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2006-1742
The JavaScript engine in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird 1.x before 1.5 and 1.0.x before 1.0.8, Mozilla Suite before 1.7.13, and SeaMonkey before 1.0 does not properly handle temporary variables that are not garbage collected, which might allow remote attackers to trigger operations on freed memory and cause memory corruption.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.039 (89.9th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 90th percentile — 89.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.039 · newest: 0.039 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2
- Mozilla Suite — versions 1.7.6, 1.7.7, 1.7.8
- Mozilla Seamonkey — versions 1.0
- Mozilla Thunderbird — versions 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2
References
- usn.ubuntu.com/275-1/ (vendor-advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11808 (signature, vdb-entry)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0330.html (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/19902 (third-party-advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1087 (signature, vdb-entry)
- www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-10.html
- usn.ubuntu.com/276-1/ (vendor-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/438730/100/0/threaded (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/19941 (third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/19780 (third-party-advisory)