CVE-2006-2788: mozilla firefox

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2006-2788 is a high (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability in mozilla firefox. EPSS estimates a 4.37% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91.1% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Timeline

1. 02-06-2006
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 07-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Double free vulnerability in the getRawDER function for nsIX509Cert in Firefox allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (hang) and possibly execute arbitrary code via certain Javascript code.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.