CVE-2006-2779
EPSS 23.3%mozilla - several
Published: 6/2/2006Modified: 4/28/2026
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.
Affected packages (3)
- Debian/mozillafrom 0, < 2:1.7.8-1sarge7.2.2
- Debian/mozilla-thunderbirdfrom 0, < 1.0.2-2.sarge1.0.8b.1
- Debian/thunderbirdfrom 0, < 1.5.0.4-1