CVE-2006-5159
mozilla firefox: no CVSS score yet. EPSS 6.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Stack-based buffer overflow in Mozilla Firefox allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors involving JavaScript. NOTE: the vendor and original researchers have released a follow-up comment disputing the severity of this issue, in which the researcher states that "we mentioned that there was a previously known Firefox vulnerability that could result in a stack overflow ending up in remote code execution. However, the code we presented did not in fact do this... I have not succeeded in making this code do anything more than cause a crash and eat up system resources"
- EPSS
- 6.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 93% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- mozilla:firefox
References
- http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2006/10/02/update-possible-vulnerability-reported-at-toorcon/
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1678
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1016962
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447493/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447497/100/0/threaded