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')

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