National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-5159
Original release date:10/05/2006
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
** DISPUTED ** 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".
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides user account access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
- Official Statement from Red Hat (10/16/2006)
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Red Hat does not consider this issue to be a security vulnerability. We have been in contact with the upstream project regarding this problem and agree that this issue currently poses no security threat. In the event more information becomes available, we will revisit this issue in the future.
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External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.securitypronews.com/insiderreports/insider/spn-49-20061003FirefoxVulnerabilityClaimWasAJoke.html
External Source: BID
Name: 20294
External Source: BID
Name: 20282
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20061001 0day in Firefox from ToorCon '06
Type: Advisory
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20061001 zero-day flaws in Firefox: about 30 unpatched Firefox flaws
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1016962
External Source: MISC
Name: http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2006/10/02/update-possible-vulnerability-reported-at-toorcon/
External Source: XF
Name: firefox-multiple-javascript-bo(29317)
External Source: SREASON
Name: 1678
