Vulnerability Note VU#390480

Mozilla products vulnerable to memory corruption

Overview

A vulnerability exists in the way Mozilla products process JavaScript. This vulnerability may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code.

I. Description

The Mozilla Foundation supports several Open Source projects, including the Mozilla, Seamonkey, and Firefox web browsers. The Thunderbird email client is also a Mozilla product.

An unspecified vulnerability exists in the way Mozilla products process JavaScript. For more information refer to Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2006-67.

Note that other Mozilla-based applications may also be affected.

II. Impact

A remote, unauthenticated attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code.

III. Solution

Upgrade

See Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2006-67 for information about affected clients.

Disable Javascript

Disabling JavaScript may mitigate the impact of this vulnerability. See the Securing Your Web Browser document for more information.

Systems Affected

Vendor	Status	Date Updated
Mozilla	Vulnerable	8-Nov-2006

References

Credit

Thanks to the Mozilla Foundation for information about this vulnerability.

This document was written by Ryan Giobbi.

Other Information

Date Public	11/08/2006
Date First Published	11/08/2006 10:58:57 AM
Date Last Updated	12/21/2006
CERT Advisory
CVE-ID(s)	CVE-2006-5748
NVD-ID(s)	CVE-2006-5748
US-CERT Technical Alerts
Metric	0.45
Document Revision	28

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