5
CVSSv2

CVE-2006-1742

Published: 14/04/2006 Updated: 18/10/2018
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 445
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Summary

The JavaScript engine in 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 handle temporary variables that are not garbage collected, which might allow remote malicious users to trigger operations on freed memory and cause memory corruption.

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mozilla firefox 1.0.6

mozilla firefox 1.5

mozilla seamonkey 1.0

mozilla thunderbird 1.0

mozilla thunderbird 1.0.6

mozilla thunderbird 1.5

mozilla firefox 1.0.4

mozilla firefox 1.0.5

mozilla mozilla suite 1.7.6

mozilla mozilla suite 1.7.7

mozilla mozilla suite 1.7.8

mozilla thunderbird 1.0.5

mozilla thunderbird

mozilla firefox 1.0

mozilla firefox 1.0.1

mozilla thunderbird 1.0.1

mozilla thunderbird 1.0.2

mozilla firefox

mozilla firefox 1.0.2

mozilla firefox 1.0.3

mozilla mozilla suite 1.7.10

mozilla mozilla suite 1.7.11

mozilla thunderbird 1.0.3

mozilla thunderbird 1.0.4

mozilla mozilla suite

mozilla seamonkey

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 2006-10 JavaScript garbage-collection hazard audit Announced April 13, 2006 Reporter Igor Bukanov Impact Critical Products Firefox, Mozilla Suite, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird Fixed in ...

References

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