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GHSA-4QVM-8X6X-VHWJ

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-01 07:25 – Updated: 2024-03-21 03:32

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** 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".

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CVE-2006-5159 (GCVE-0-2006-5159)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-10-03 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 19:41 Disputed

Summary

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"

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

9 references

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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20282	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016962	vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/20…	x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447497/100…	mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1678	third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
http://www.securitypronews.com/insiderreports/ins…	x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447493/100…	mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20294	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID

Date Public

2006-09-30 00:00

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