CVE-2006-5159

Firefox - Stack-Based Buffer Overflow via JavaScript

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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"

References (9)

Core 9
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29317
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20282
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016962
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447497/100/0/threaded
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_sreason
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1678
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447493/100/0/threaded
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20294

Scores

EPSS 0.0588
EPSS Percentile 92.4%

Details

Status published
Products (27)
mozilla/firefox 0.8
mozilla/firefox 0.9 (2 CPE variants)
mozilla/firefox 0.9.1
mozilla/firefox 0.9.2
mozilla/firefox 0.9.3
mozilla/firefox 0.10
mozilla/firefox 0.10.1
mozilla/firefox 1.0
mozilla/firefox 1.0.1
mozilla/firefox 1.0.2
... and 17 more
Published Oct 05, 2006
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026