CVE-2006-1738 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2006-1738?

CVE-2006-1738 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, 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 Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird 1.x before 1.5 and 1.0.x before 1.0.8, Mozilla Suite before 1.7.13, and SeaMonkey before 1.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by changing the (1) -moz-grid and (2) -moz-grid-group display styles.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-1738?

It affects 4 products.

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

How do I fix CVE-2006-1738?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2006-1738 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-1738 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2022-26485 Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free Exploited High 8.8
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Sources

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

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2006-1738, GHSA-wgp2-rffm-276c.