Buffer overflow in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2006-6500
Heap-based buffer overflow in Mozilla Firefox 2.x before 2.0.0.1, 1.5.x before 1.5.0.9, Thunderbird before 1.5.0.9, and SeaMonkey before 1.0.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code by setting the CSS cursor to certain images that cause an incorrect size calculation when converting to a Windows bitmap.
Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 6.8 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.086 (94.9th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 95th percentile — 94.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.083 · newest: 0.086 · change: +0.002
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox
- Mozilla Seamonkey
- Mozilla Thunderbird
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 5.10, 6.06, 6.10
- Debian Linux — versions 3.1, 4.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/21668 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/23672 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5068 (Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/23598 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/23692 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200701-04.xml (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/23282 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/23422 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp (vendor-advisory, Broken Link)