CVE-2006-6498

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 JavaScript 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, SeaMonkey before 1.0.7, and Mozilla 1.7 and probably earlier on Solaris, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown impact and attack vectors.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 1.5, 1.5.0.1, 1.5.0.2, 1.5.0.3, 1.5.0.4, 1.5.0.5 (+4)
Mozilla: 1.7
Mozilla Seamonkey: 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.0.5 (+1)
Mozilla Thunderbird: 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+24)

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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