CVE-2006-6015 (GCVE-0-2006-6015)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-11-21 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 20:12
VLAI
Summary
Buffer overflow in the JavaScript implementation in Safari on Apple Mac OS X 10.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long argument to the exec method of a regular expression.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/451823/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/451542/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
Date Public
2006-11-14 00:00
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