CVE-2006-1742 Use after free in n/a

What is CVE-2006-1742?

CVE-2006-1742 is a medium-severity use after free 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

The JavaScript engine 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 does not properly handle temporary variables that are not garbage collected, which might allow remote attackers to trigger operations on freed memory and cause memory corruption.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-1742?

It affects 4 products.

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

How do I fix CVE-2006-1742?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2006-1742 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-1742 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox

• CVE-2019-11708 Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird Sandbox Escape Exploited Critical 10.0
• CVE-2010-3765 Mozilla Multiple Products Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-26486 Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2022-26485 Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2019-11707 Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird Type Confusion Exploited High 8.8

All Mozilla Firefox vulnerabilities

Sources

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

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2006-1742, GHSA-7mq9-p447-2gr2.