CVE-2006-6497

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-12-20 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the layout engine for Mozilla Firefox 2.x before 2.0.0.1, 1.5.x before 1.5.0.9, Thunderbird before 1.5.0.9, and SeaMonkey before 1.0.7 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown attack vectors.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 1.5.0.8; 2.0
Mozilla Seamonkey: through 1.5.0.8
Mozilla Thunderbird: through 1.5.0.8

References

http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2297
http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2338
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00771742
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0758.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0759.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0760.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/23282
http://secunia.com/advisories/23420
http://secunia.com/advisories/23422
http://secunia.com/advisories/23433
http://secunia.com/advisories/23439

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