CVE-2006-4253

Concurrency vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via multiple Javascript timed events that load a deeply nested XML file, followed by redirecting the browser to another page, which leads to a concurrency failure that causes structures to be freed incorrectly, as demonstrated by (1) ffoxdie and (2) ffoxdie3. NOTE: it has been reported that Netscape 8.1 and K-Meleon 1.0.1 are also affected by ffoxdie. Mozilla confirmed to CVE that ffoxdie and ffoxdie3 trigger the same underlying vulnerability. NOTE: it was later reported that Firefox 2.0 RC2 and 1.5.0.7 are also affected.

CVSS v2.0

7.6 HIGHAV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS

14.92% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 96th percentile

Published

2006-08-21

Updated

2024-08-07

ExploitDB entries (1)

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/28380

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2006-4250
• CVE-2006-4254
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• CVE-2006-4267
• CVE-2006-4241
• CVE-2006-4270