CVE-2006-5783

Firefox 1.5.0.7 on Kubuntu Linux allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long URL in an A tag. NOTE: this issue has been disputed by several vendors, who could not reproduce the report. In addition, the scope of the impact - system freeze - suggests an issue that is not related to Firefox. Due to this impact, CVE concurs with the dispute

CVSS v2.0

7.8 HIGHAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

EPSS

2.30% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 82th percentile

Published

2006-11-07

Updated

2024-08-07

Proof-of-concept exploits (4)

• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450424/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450730/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450476/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450398/100/0/threaded

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2006-5780
• CVE-2006-5784
• CVE-2006-5777
• CVE-2006-5786
• CVE-2006-5773
• CVE-2006-5787