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CVE-2006-0298

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2006-02-02 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The XML parser in Mozilla Firefox before 1.5.0.1 and SeaMonkey before 1.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly read sensitive data via unknown attack vectors that trigger an out-of-bounds read.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: 1.5, 1.5-beta1
• Mozilla Seamonkey: 1.0, 1.0-beta

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/18700
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18704
• http://secunia.com/advisories/22065
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1015570
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-07.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/446657/100/200/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16476
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0413
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3749
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24436
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A677
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18700

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