Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2006-3803
Race condition in the JavaScript garbage collection in Mozilla Firefox 1.5 before 1.5.0.5, Thunderbird before 1.5.0.5, and SeaMonkey before 1.0.3 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by causing the garbage collector to delete a temporary variable while it is still being used during the creation of a new Function object.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.1 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.045 (91.1th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 91st percentile — 91.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.045 · newest: 0.045 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 1.5, 1.5.0.1, 1.5.0.2
- Mozilla Seamonkey — versions 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2
- Mozilla Thunderbird — versions 1.5, 1.5.0.2, 1.5.0.4
References
- secunia.com/advisories/21243 (third-party-advisory)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0608.html (vendor-advisory)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200608-02.xml (vendor-advisory)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3748 (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/19181 (Patch, vdb-entry)
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-208A.html (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/22055 (third-party-advisory)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2998 (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/441333/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)