National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-4310
Original release date:08/23/2006
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted FTP response, when attempting to connect with a username and password via the FTP URI.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
- Official Statement from Red Hat (09/21/2006)
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Red Hat does not consider this flaw a security issue. This flaw is the result of a NULL pointer dereference, which is not exploitable and can only cause a client crash.
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External Source: BID
Name: 19678
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20060822 (exploit) firefox 1.5.0.6 linux DoS
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1227
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1225
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1224
External Source: SREASON
Name: 1444
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 23235
Type: Advisory
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Name: 23202
Type: Advisory
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Name: 23197
Type: Advisory