CVE-2006-4565: mozilla firefox

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2006-4565 is a high (CVSS 9.3) vulnerability in mozilla firefox. EPSS estimates a 6.17% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93.4% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 15-09-2006
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 07-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in Mozilla Firefox before 1.5.0.7, Thunderbird before 1.5.0.7, and SeaMonkey before 1.0.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a JavaScript regular expression with a "minimal quantifier."

• 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.