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CVE-2006-4253

Date: August 21, 2006

Concurrency vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via multiple Javascript timed events that load a deeply nested XML file, followed by redirecting the browser to another page, which leads to a concurrency failure that causes structures to be freed incorrectly, as demonstrated by (1) ffoxdie and (2) ffoxdie3. NOTE: it has been reported that Netscape 8.1 and K-Meleon 1.0.1 are also affected by ffoxdie. Mozilla confirmed to CVE that ffoxdie and ffoxdie3 trigger the same underlying vulnerability. NOTE: it was later reported that Firefox 2.0 RC2 and 1.5.0.7 are also affected.

Severity Score

8.1

Related Resources (71)

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/22391

Url: http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/ffoxdie3.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/21939

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/22422

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/443500/100/100/threaded

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-351-1

Url: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=348514

Url: ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060901-01-P.asc

Url: http://www.securiteam.com/securitynews/5VP0M0AJFW.html

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3748

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/22066

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/22025

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/449245/100/100/threaded

Url: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-59.html

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19534

Url: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200609-19.xml

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/21949

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2006-4253

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0677.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/21906

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/443528/100/0/threaded

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/21940

Url: http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_54_mozilla.html

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/443020/100/100/threaded

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/22195

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3617

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/22074

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:168

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/22274

Url: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200610-04.xml

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:169

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/22036

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/449726/100/0/threaded

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/446140/100/0/threaded

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19488

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0675.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/21916

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/21915

Url: https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-640

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/21950

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0083

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-354-1

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-352-1

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-350-1

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/21513

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/448956/100/100/threaded

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/449487/100/0/threaded

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/22001

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/22088

Url: http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-224.htm

Url: http://securitytracker.com/id?1016848

Url: http://securitytracker.com/id?1016846

Url: http://securitytracker.com/id?1016847

Url: http://www.pianetapc.it/view.php?id=770

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/443306/100/100/threaded

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1198

Url: http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/ffoxdie.html

Url: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200610-01.xml

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-4253

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447840/100/200/threaded

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0676.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/24711

Url: https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9528

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447837/100/200/threaded

Url: http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=c00771742

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/448984/100/100/threaded

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/22056

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/22210

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2006-4253

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/22055

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2006-4253

Severity Score

8.1

Weakness Type (CWE)

Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control

CWE-264

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	8.1
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	7.6
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	COMPLETE
Integrity (I):	COMPLETE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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