Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird before 1.5.0.4 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via (1) nested <option> tags in a select tag, (2) a DOMNodeRemoved mutation event, (3) "Content-implemented tree views," (4) BoxObjects, (5) the XBL implementation, (6) an iframe that attempts to remove itself, which leads to memory corruption.
Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.


Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References
Link Providers
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0609.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/20376 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/20382 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/20561 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/20709 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/21134 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/21176 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/21178 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/21183 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/21188 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/21210 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/21269 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/21270 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/21324 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/21336 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/21532 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/21607 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/21631 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/21634 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/21654 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/22065 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/22066 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/27216 cve-icon cve-icon
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016202 cve-icon cve-icon
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016214 cve-icon cve-icon
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102943-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-200387-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1118 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1120 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1134 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1159 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1160 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-12.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-21.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/466673 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:143 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:145 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:146 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-32.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_35_mozilla.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0578.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0594.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0610.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0611.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435795/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/446657/100/200/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/446658/100/200/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18228 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-153A.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2106 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3748 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3749 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3488 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0083 cve-icon cve-icon
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26843 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-2779 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9762 cve-icon cve-icon
https://usn.ubuntu.com/296-1/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://usn.ubuntu.com/296-2/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://usn.ubuntu.com/297-1/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://usn.ubuntu.com/297-3/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://usn.ubuntu.com/323-1/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-2779 cve-icon
History

No history.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T17:58:52.270Z

Reserved: 2006-06-02T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2006-2779

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2006-06-02T19:02:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Link: CVE-2006-2779

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Critical

Publid Date: 2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2006-2779 - Bugzilla

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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