CVE-2006-1724 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2006-1724?

CVE-2006-1724 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 14 Apr 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

Unspecified vulnerability in Firefox and Thunderbird before 1.5.0.2, 1.0.x before 1.0.8, Mozilla Suite before 1.7.13, and SeaMonkey before 1.0.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via attack vectors related to DHTML.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-1724?

It affects 5 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Mozilla Suite, Mozilla Seamonkey, Mozilla Thunderbird.

How do I fix CVE-2006-1724?

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-2006-1724 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-1724 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2006-1724, GHSA-8v22-vg6j-pf23.