CVE-2006-1742

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-04-14 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The JavaScript engine in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird 1.x before 1.5 and 1.0.x before 1.0.8, Mozilla Suite before 1.7.13, and SeaMonkey before 1.0 does not properly handle temporary variables that are not garbage collected, which might allow remote attackers to trigger operations on freed memory and cause memory corruption.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 1.0.7; 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.0.5 (+4)
Mozilla Suite: through 1.7.12; 1.7.6, 1.7.7, 1.7.8, 1.7.10, 1.7.11
Mozilla Seamonkey: through 1.0; 1.0
Mozilla Thunderbird: through 1.0.7; 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.0.5 (+4)

References

http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Apr/0003.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/19631
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
http://secunia.com/advisories/19794

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