VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2006-2779
CVSS score9.3 HIGH
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2006-06-02
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Description
Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird before 1.5.0.4 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via (1) nested <option> tags in a select tag, (2) a DOMNodeRemoved mutation event, (3) "Content-implemented tree views," (4) BoxObjects, (5) the XBL implementation, (6) an iframe that attempts to remove itself, which leads to memory corruption.
Weakness classification
- CWE-94: Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
Primary references
- cve@mitre.org — Vendor Advisory
- cve@mitre.org — Patch, Vendor Advisory
- cve@mitre.org — Patch, Vendor Advisory
- cve@mitre.org — Patch, Vendor Advisory
- cve@mitre.org
- cve@mitre.org — Vendor Advisory
- cve@mitre.org — Vendor Advisory
- cve@mitre.org — Vendor Advisory
- cve@mitre.org — Vendor Advisory
- cve@mitre.org — Vendor Advisory
- cve@mitre.org — Vendor Advisory
- cve@mitre.org — Vendor Advisory