CVE-2006-6502

Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 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: 2006-12-20 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the LiveConnect bridge code 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 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via unknown vectors.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 1.5, 1.5-beta1, 1.5-beta2, 1.5.0.1, 1.5.0.2, 1.5.0.3 (+7)
Mozilla Seamonkey: 1.0, 1.0-beta, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4 (+2)
Mozilla Thunderbird: 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+25)

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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