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MFSA2006-68 Firefox: Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.0.9/1.8.1.1) (CVE-2006-6498)

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MFSA2006-68 Firefox: Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.0.9/1.8.1.1) (CVE-2006-6498)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/19/2006
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/14/2012
Modified
02/13/2015

Description

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the JavaScript engine for Mozilla Firefox 2.x before 2.0.0.1, 1.5.x before 1.5.0.9, Thunderbird before 1.5.0.9, SeaMonkey before 1.0.7, and Mozilla 1.7 and probably earlier on Solaris, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown impact and attack vectors.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-1_5_0_9
  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-2_0_0_1

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