Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2006-2778
The crypto.signText function in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird before 1.5.0.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via certain optional Certificate Authority name arguments, which causes an invalid array index and triggers a buffer overflow.
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: 0.049 (91.8th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 92nd percentile — 91.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.049 · newest: 0.049 · change: 0.000
Affected products
References
- secunia.com/advisories/20709 (third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/21176 (third-party-advisory)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3748 (vdb-entry)
- usn.ubuntu.com/297-3/ (vendor-advisory)
- usn.ubuntu.com/296-1/ (vendor-advisory)
- usn.ubuntu.com/323-1/ (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/20561 (third-party-advisory)
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-153A.html (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/21210 (third-party-advisory)