CVE-2006-0295 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2006-0295?

CVE-2006-0295 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 2 Feb 2006. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Mozilla Firefox 1.5, Thunderbird 1.5 if Javascript is enabled in mail, and SeaMonkey before 1.0 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the QueryInterface method of the built-in Location and Navigator objects, which leads to memory corruption.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-0295?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Seamonkey, Mozilla Thunderbird.

How do I fix CVE-2006-0295?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2006-0295 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2006-0295 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Metasploit module and 3 Exploit-DB entries.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2006-0295, GHSA-ggv2-xg5v-qq68.