CVE-2006-5783

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-11-07 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Firefox 1.5.0.7 on Kubuntu Linux allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long URL in an A tag. NOTE: this issue has been disputed by several vendors, who could not reproduce the report. In addition, the scope of the impact - system freeze - suggests an issue that is not related to Firefox. Due to this impact, CVE concurs with the dispute

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 1.5.0.7

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450398/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450424/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450476/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450730/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450398/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450424/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450476/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450730/100/0/threaded

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