CVE-2006-4253

high

Description

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.

References

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

http://secunia.com/advisories/21513

http://secunia.com/advisories/21906

http://secunia.com/advisories/21915

http://secunia.com/advisories/21916

http://secunia.com/advisories/21939

http://secunia.com/advisories/21940

http://secunia.com/advisories/21949

http://secunia.com/advisories/21950

http://secunia.com/advisories/22001

http://secunia.com/advisories/22025

http://secunia.com/advisories/22036

http://secunia.com/advisories/22055

http://secunia.com/advisories/22056

http://secunia.com/advisories/22066

http://secunia.com/advisories/22074

http://secunia.com/advisories/22088

http://secunia.com/advisories/22195

http://secunia.com/advisories/22210

http://secunia.com/advisories/22274

http://secunia.com/advisories/22391

http://secunia.com/advisories/22422

http://secunia.com/advisories/24711

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

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

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

http://securitytracker.com/id?1016846

http://securitytracker.com/id?1016847

http://securitytracker.com/id?1016848

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2006-08-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High