CVE-2006-4253
Concurrency vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via multiple Javascript timed events that load a deeply nested XML file, followed by…
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Description
Concurrency vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via multiple Javascript timed events that load a deeply nested XML file, followed by redirecting the browser to another page, which leads to a concurrency failure that causes structures to be freed incorrectly, as demonstrated by (1) ffoxdie and (2) ffoxdie3. NOTE: it has been reported that Netscape 8.1 and K-Meleon 1.0.1 are also affected by ffoxdie. Mozilla confirmed to CVE that ffoxdie and ffoxdie3 trigger the same underlying vulnerability. NOTE: it was later reported that Firefox 2.0 RC2 and 1.5.0.7 are also affected.
- CVSS 2.0
- 7.6 HIGHAV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- EPSS
- 14.92% probability · 97th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-264
- Affected
- k-meleon project/k-meleon · mozilla/firefox · netscape/navigator
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060901-01-P.asc
- http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/ffoxdie.html
- http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/ffoxdie3.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21513Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21906Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21915Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21916Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21939Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21940Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21949Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21950Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22001Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22025Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22036Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22055Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22056
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22066
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22074Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22088Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22195
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22210Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22274Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22391Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22422Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24711
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200609-19.xml
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200610-01.xml
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200610-04.xml
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1016846
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1016847
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.