CVE-2006-2788 Use after free in n/a

What is CVE-2006-2788?

CVE-2006-2788 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 2 Jun 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

Double free vulnerability in the getRawDER function for nsIX509Cert in Firefox allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (hang) and possibly execute arbitrary code via certain Javascript code.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-2788?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Mozilla Firefox.

How do I fix CVE-2006-2788?

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-2006-2788 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-2788 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• 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
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Also known as GHSA-5g7c-rmr5-h878.