Vulnerability Note VU#527676

Mozilla contains multiple memory corruption vulnerabilities

Overview

Mozilla products contain multiple vulnerabilities that can cause memory corruption. This may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system.

I. Description

Mozilla products contain multiple bugs that cause the application to crash. In some cases, a crash may be exploitable to execute arbitrary code.

II. Impact

A remote, unauthenticated attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. The attacker could also cause the vulnerable application to crash.

III. Solution

Apply an update

This vulnerability is addressed in Firefox 1.5.0.5, Thunderbird 1.5.0.5, and SeaMonkey 1.0.3, according to the Mozilla Foundation Security Update 2006-55.

Disable JavaScript

These vulnerabilities can be mitigated by disabling JavaScript.

Systems Affected

Vendor	Status	Date Notified	Date Updated
Mozilla, Inc.	Vulnerable	27-Jul-2006

References

Credit

This vulnerability was reported by the Mozilla Foundation, who in turn credit Boris Zbarsky, Darin Fisher, Daniel Veditz, Jesse Ruderman, Martijn Wargers, and shutdown.

This document was written by Will Dormann.

Other Information

Date Public:	2006-07-25
Date First Published:	2006-07-27
Date Last Updated:	2007-07-17
CERT Advisory:
CVE-ID(s):	CVE-2006-3811
NVD-ID(s):	CVE-2006-3811
US-CERT Technical Alerts:
Metric:	7.37
Document Revision:	10

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