CVE-2006-6498 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2006-6498?

CVE-2006-6498 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 20 Dec 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

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the JavaScript engine for Mozilla Firefox 2.x before 2.0.0.1, 1.5.x before 1.5.0.9, Thunderbird before 1.5.0.9, SeaMonkey before 1.0.7, and Mozilla 1.7 and probably earlier on Solaris, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown impact and attack vectors.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-6498?

It affects 4 products.

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

How do I fix CVE-2006-6498?

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-2006-6498 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-6498 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox

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• 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-2006-6498, GHSA-jmfp-6hwg-w7qf.