CVE-2006-1730

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 10.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-04-14 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Integer overflow in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird 1.x before 1.5.0.2 and 1.0.x before 1.0.8, Mozilla Suite before 1.7.13, and SeaMonkey before 1.0.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large number in the CSS letter-spacing property that leads to a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.0.5 (+6)
Mozilla Suite: 1.7.6, 1.7.7, 1.7.8, 1.7.10, 1.7.11, 1.7.12
Mozilla Seamonkey: 1.0, 1.0-beta
Mozilla Thunderbird: 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.0.5 (+6)

References

http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Apr/0003.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/19631
http://secunia.com/advisories/19649
http://secunia.com/advisories/19696
http://secunia.com/advisories/19714
http://secunia.com/advisories/19721
http://secunia.com/advisories/19729
http://secunia.com/advisories/19746
http://secunia.com/advisories/19759
http://secunia.com/advisories/19780

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