CVE-2006-4253
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
02 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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 15.18% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 96.5% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Important. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2006-08-21 20:00Z20 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 19:06Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2006-08-21
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 7f67f55dfcd4e7727d37639de407f3fbb570b12efd0a862301c85fedacad1e3b
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.securityfocus.com20061017 Flaw in Firefox 2.0 RC2http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/448956/100/100/threaded
- www.securityfocus.com20060817 Re: [VulnWatch] Re: Concurrency-related vulnerabilities in browsers - expect problemshttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/443500/100/100/threaded
- securitytracker.com1016847http://securitytracker.com/id?1016847
- secunia.com22391http://secunia.com/advisories/22391
- www.vupen.comADV-2006-3748http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3748
- www.redhat.comRHSA-2006:0676http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0676.html
- www.mozilla.orghttp://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-59.html
- lcamtuf.coredump.cxhttp://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/ffoxdie.html
- secunia.com22055http://secunia.com/advisories/22055
- secunia.com22195http://secunia.com/advisories/22195
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:9528https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9528
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-352-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-352-1
- secunia.com21513http://secunia.com/advisories/21513
- secunia.com21950http://secunia.com/advisories/21950
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-351-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-351-1
- secunia.com22025http://secunia.com/advisories/22025
- secunia.com22056http://secunia.com/advisories/22056
- www.mandriva.comMDKSA-2006:168http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:168
- www.securityfocus.com20060812 Concurrency-related vulnerabilities in browsers - expect problemshttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/443020/100/100/threaded
- secunia.com22210http://secunia.com/advisories/22210
- secunia.com24711http://secunia.com/advisories/24711
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-200610-04http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200610-04.xml
- support.avaya.comhttp://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-224.htm
- www.pianetapc.ithttp://www.pianetapc.it/view.php?id=770
- www.vupen.comADV-2008-0083http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0083
- www.securityfocus.com20060817 RE: [VulnWatch] Re: Concurrency-related vulnerabilities in browsers - expect problemshttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/443528/100/0/threaded
- patches.sgi.com20060901-01-Pftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060901-01-P.asc
- secunia.com21939http://secunia.com/advisories/21939
- securitytracker.com1016848http://securitytracker.com/id?1016848
- www.vupen.comADV-2006-3617http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3617
- secunia.com21915http://secunia.com/advisories/21915
- www.vupen.comADV-2007-1198http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1198
- www.securityfocus.com20061006 Re: Concurrency-related vulnerabilities in browsers - expect problemshttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447837/100/200/threaded
- www.redhat.comRHSA-2006:0677http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0677.html
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-200609-19http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200609-19.xml
- www1.itrc.hp.comSSRT061181http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=c00771742
- www.securityfocus.com20061017 Re: Flaw in Firefox 2.0 RC2http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/448984/100/100/threaded
- secunia.com22274http://secunia.com/advisories/22274
- www.redhat.comRHSA-2006:0675http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0675.html
- secunia.com21940http://secunia.com/advisories/21940
- secunia.com22001http://secunia.com/advisories/22001
- www.securityfocus.com20060915 rPSA-2006-0169-1 firefox thunderbirdhttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/446140/100/0/threaded
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-350-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-350-1
- secunia.com21906http://secunia.com/advisories/21906
- www.securityfocus.com20061019 Re: Flaw in Firefox 2.0 RC2http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/449245/100/100/threaded
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-200610-01http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200610-01.xml
- secunia.com22074http://secunia.com/advisories/22074
- secunia.com22066http://secunia.com/advisories/22066
- secunia.com22088http://secunia.com/advisories/22088
- www.securityfocus.com20060815 Re: Concurrency-related vulnerabilities in browsers - expect problemshttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/443306/100/100/threaded
- secunia.com21949http://secunia.com/advisories/21949
- www.novell.comSUSE-SA:2006:054http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_54_mozilla.html
- bugzilla.mozilla.orghttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=348514
- www.securityfocus.com19534http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19534
- issues.rpath.comhttps://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-640
- www.securityfocus.com20061005 Re: Concurrency-related vulnerabilities in browsers - expect problemshttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447840/100/200/threaded
- lcamtuf.coredump.cxhttp://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/ffoxdie3.html
- www.securityfocus.com20061025 Mozilla Firefox JavaScript Handler Race Condition Memory Corruption Vulnerabilityhttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/449726/100/0/threaded
- secunia.com22036http://secunia.com/advisories/22036
- securitytracker.com1016846http://securitytracker.com/id?1016846
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-354-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-354-1
- www.securityfocus.com19488http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19488
- www.securityfocus.com20061023 Flaw in Firefox 2.0 Finalhttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/449487/100/0/threaded
- secunia.com22422http://secunia.com/advisories/22422
- www.mandriva.comMDKSA-2006:169http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:169
- www.securiteam.comhttp://www.securiteam.com/securitynews/5VP0M0AJFW.html
- secunia.com21916http://secunia.com/advisories/21916
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- thunderbird Fixed in 1.5.0.7-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- thunderbird Fixed in 1.5.0.7-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- thunderbird Fixed in 1.5.0.7-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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