Security Advisory

CVE-2006-5159

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2006-10-03 23:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 19:41:04
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

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"