Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in Mozilla Firefox allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors involving JavaScript. NOTE: the vendor and original researchers have released a follow-up comment disputing the severity of this issue, in which the researcher states that "we mentioned that there was a previously known Firefox vulnerability that could result in a stack overflow ending up in remote code execution. However, the code we presented did not in fact do this... I have not succeeded in making this code do anything more than cause a crash and eat up system resources"
Published: 2006-10-03
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: 7.3% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T19:41:04.230Z

Reserved: 2006-10-03T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2006-5159

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Status : Modified

Published: 2006-10-05T04:04:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2006-5159

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