6.8
CVSSv2

CVE-2006-1733

Published: 14/04/2006 Updated: 18/10/2018
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.8 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
VMScore: 605
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird 1.x prior to 1.5 and 1.0.x prior to 1.0.8, Mozilla Suite prior to 1.7.13, and SeaMonkey prior to 1.0 does not properly protect the compilation scope of privileged built-in XBL bindings, which allows remote malicious users to execute arbitrary code via the (1) valueOf.call or (2) valueOf.apply methods of an XBL binding, or (3) "by inserting an XBL method into the DOM's document.body prototype chain."

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mozilla firefox 1.0.3

mozilla firefox 1.0.4

mozilla mozilla suite 1.7.11

mozilla mozilla suite 1.7.6

mozilla thunderbird 1.0.3

mozilla thunderbird 1.0.4

mozilla seamonkey

mozilla thunderbird

mozilla firefox 1.5

mozilla seamonkey 1.0

mozilla thunderbird 1.0

mozilla thunderbird 1.0.6

mozilla thunderbird 1.5

mozilla firefox 1.0

mozilla firefox 1.0.1

mozilla firefox 1.0.2

mozilla mozilla suite 1.7.10

mozilla thunderbird 1.0.1

mozilla thunderbird 1.0.2

mozilla firefox

mozilla mozilla suite

mozilla firefox 1.0.5

mozilla firefox 1.0.6

mozilla mozilla suite 1.7.7

mozilla mozilla suite 1.7.8

mozilla thunderbird 1.0.5

Vendor Advisories

Igor Bukanov discovered that the JavaScript engine did not properly declare some temporary variables Under some rare circumstances, a malicious mail with embedded JavaScript could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user (CVE-2006-0292, CVE-2006-1742) ...
Web pages with extremely long titles caused subsequent launches of Mozilla browser to hang for up to a few minutes, or caused Mozilla to crash on computers with insufficient memory (CVE-2005-4134) ...
Web pages with extremely long titles caused subsequent launches of Firefox browser to hang for up to a few minutes, or caused Firefox to crash on computers with insufficient memory (CVE-2005-4134) ...
Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2006-16 Accessing XBL compilation scope via valueOfcall() Announced April 13, 2006 Reporter moz_bug_r_a4 Impact Critical Products Firefox, Mozilla Suite, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird Fixe ...

References

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