CVE-2006-4253

N/A
Published: August 21, 2006 at 08:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:28 PM UTC
3 products affected across 3 vendorsFirefoxNavigatorK Meleon

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 15%

Description

Concurrency vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via multiple Javascript timed events that load a deeply nested XML file, followed by redirecting the browser to another page, which leads to a concurrency failure that causes structures to be freed incorrectly, as demonstrated by (1) ffoxdie and (2) ffoxdie3. NOTE: it has been reported that Netscape 8.1 and K-Meleon 1.0.1 are also affected by ffoxdie. Mozilla confirmed to CVE that ffoxdie and ffoxdie3 trigger the same underlying vulnerability. NOTE: it was later reported that Firefox 2.0 RC2 and 1.5.0.7 are also affected.

Affected

References (67)

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/21513
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/21906
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/21915
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/21916
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/21939

CVSS

Confidentiality
COMPLETE
Integrity
COMPLETE
Availability
COMPLETE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-264

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