Concurrency vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via multiple Javascript timed events that load a deeply nested XML file, followed by redirecting the browser to another page, which leads to a concurrency failure that causes structures to be freed incorrectly, as demonstrated by (1) ffoxdie and (2) ffoxdie3. NOTE: it has been reported that Netscape 8.1 and K-Meleon 1.0.1 are also affected by ffoxdie. Mozilla confirmed to CVE that ffoxdie and ffoxdie3 trigger the same underlying vulnerability. NOTE: it was later reported that Firefox 2.0 RC2 and 1.5.0.7 are also affected.
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http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/ffoxdie.html cve-icon cve-icon
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http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200609-19.xml cve-icon cve-icon
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http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200610-04.xml cve-icon cve-icon
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http://securitytracker.com/id?1016847 cve-icon cve-icon
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https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=348514 cve-icon cve-icon
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-640 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-4253 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9528 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-4253 cve-icon
History

No history.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2006-08-21T20:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T19:06:07.637Z

Reserved: 2006-08-21T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2006-4253

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2006-08-21T20:04:00.000

Modified: 2024-02-14T01:17:43.863

Link: CVE-2006-4253

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2006-08-12T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2006-4253 - Bugzilla