CVE-2006-5159

Published Oct 3, 2006 CVSS 2.0 · 7.5 High EPSS 6.3% KEV · Not listed
Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in Mozilla Firefox allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors involving JavaScript. NOTE: the vendor and original researchers have released a follow-up comment disputing the severity of this issue, in which the researcher states that "we mentioned that there was a previously known Firefox vulnerability that could result in a stack overflow ending up in remote code execution. However, the code we presented did not in fact do this... I have not succeeded in making this code do anything more than cause a crash and eat up system resources"

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 7, 2024, 7:41 PM
Reserved
Oct 3, 2006, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Oct 5, 2006, 4:04 AM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 10:30 PM