CVE-2006-4566
Mozilla Firefox Regular Expression Buffer Over-read Denial of Service
Description
Mozilla Firefox before 1.5.0.7, Thunderbird before 1.5.0.7, and SeaMonkey before 1.0.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed JavaScript regular expression that ends with a backslash in an unterminated character set ("[\\"), which leads to a buffer over-read.
INFO
Published Date :
Sept. 15, 2006, 6:07 p.m.
Last Modified :
April 3, 2025, 1:03 a.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
Yes !
Impact Score :
2.9
Exploitability Score :
10.0
Affected Products
The following products are affected by CVE-2006-4566
vulnerability.
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CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Nov. 21, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060901-01-P.asc Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/21906 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/21915 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/21916 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/21939 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/21940 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/21949 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/21950 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/22001 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/22025 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/22036 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/22055 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/22056 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/22066 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/22074 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/22088 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/22195 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/22210 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/22247 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/22274 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/22299 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/22391 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/22422 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/22849 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/24711 Added Reference http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200609-19.xml Added Reference http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200610-01.xml Added Reference http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200610-04.xml Added Reference http://securitytracker.com/id?1016846 Added Reference http://securitytracker.com/id?1016847 Added Reference http://securitytracker.com/id?1016848 Added Reference http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-224.htm Added Reference http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1192 Added Reference http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1210 Added Reference http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/141528 Added Reference http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:168 Added Reference http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:169 Added Reference http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-57.html Added Reference http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_54_mozilla.html Added Reference http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0675.html Added Reference http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0676.html Added Reference http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0677.html Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/446140/100/0/threaded Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20042 Added Reference http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-350-1 Added Reference http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-351-1 Added Reference http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-352-1 Added Reference http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-354-1 Added Reference http://www.us.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1191 Added Reference http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3617 Added Reference http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3748 Added Reference http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1198 Added Reference http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0083 Added Reference http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=c00771742 Added Reference http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=c00771742 Added Reference https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28958 Added Reference https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-640 Added Reference https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9637 -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
May. 14, 2024
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CVE Modified by [email protected]
Oct. 17, 2018
Action Type Old Value New Value Removed Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/446140/100/0/threaded [No Types Assigned] Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/446140/100/0/threaded [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Oct. 11, 2017
Action Type Old Value New Value Removed Reference http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9637 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9637 [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Jul. 20, 2017
Action Type Old Value New Value Removed Reference http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/28958 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28958 [No Types Assigned] -
Initial Analysis by [email protected]
Sep. 18, 2006
Action Type Old Value New Value
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration
While CVE identifies
specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or
weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2006-4566 is
associated with the following CWEs:
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification
(CAPEC)
stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and
approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2006-4566
weaknesses.
Exploit Prediction
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.
19.15 }} -8.28%
score
0.94859
percentile