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CVE-2006-5159

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"

  • Published: Oct 5, 2006
  • Updated: Nov 8, 2023
  • CVE: CVE-2006-5159
  • Severity: High
  • Exploit:

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: High
  • Score: 7.5
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

No CWE or OWASP classifications available.

Software From Fixed in
mozilla / firefox 0.8 0.8.x
mozilla / firefox 1.5-beta2 1.5-beta2.x
mozilla / firefox 1.5.4 1.5.4.x
mozilla / firefox 1.0.2 1.0.2.x
mozilla / firefox 1.5-beta1 1.5-beta1.x
mozilla / firefox 1.5 1.5.x
mozilla / firefox 0.9.1 0.9.1.x
mozilla / firefox 1.0.4 1.0.4.x
mozilla / firefox 1.0.7 1.0.7.x
mozilla / firefox 0.10.1 0.10.1.x
mozilla / firefox 0.9 0.9.x
mozilla / firefox 1.5.6 1.5.6.x
mozilla / firefox 1.0 1.0.x
mozilla / firefox 1.0.1 1.0.1.x
mozilla / firefox preview_release preview_release.x
mozilla / firefox 1.5.7 1.5.7.x
mozilla / firefox 1.5.0.2 1.5.0.2.x
mozilla / firefox 1.0.3 1.0.3.x
mozilla / firefox 0.9.3 0.9.3.x
mozilla / firefox 1.5.5 1.5.5.x
mozilla / firefox 0.9.2 0.9.2.x
mozilla / firefox 2.0-beta_1 2.0-beta_1.x
mozilla / firefox 0.9-rc 0.9-rc.x
mozilla / firefox 1.5.8 1.5.8.x
mozilla / firefox 1.5.3 1.5.3.x
mozilla / firefox 1.5.0.1 1.5.0.1.x
mozilla / firefox 0.10 0.10.x
mozilla / firefox 1.0.5 1.0.5.x
mozilla / firefox 1.0.6 1.0.6.x
mozilla / firefox 1.0.8 1.0.8.x