CVE-2006-2779

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-06-02 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird before 1.5.0.4 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via (1) nested <option> tags in a select tag, (2) a DOMNodeRemoved mutation event, (3) "Content-implemented tree views," (4) BoxObjects, (5) the XBL implementation, (6) an iframe that attempts to remove itself, which leads to memory corruption.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 0.8, 0.9, 0.9-rc, 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.9.3 (+19)
Mozilla Thunderbird: 0.6, 0.7, 0.7.1, 0.7.2, 0.7.3, 0.8 (+12)

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0609.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/20376
http://secunia.com/advisories/20382
http://secunia.com/advisories/20561
http://secunia.com/advisories/20709
http://secunia.com/advisories/21134
http://secunia.com/advisories/21176
http://secunia.com/advisories/21178
http://secunia.com/advisories/21183
http://secunia.com/advisories/21188
http://secunia.com/advisories/21210
http://secunia.com/advisories/21269

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