CVE-2006-0293 Information

Description

The function allocation code (js_NewFunction in jsfun.c) in Firefox 1.5 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) and possibly execute arbitrary code via user-defined methods that trigger garbage collection in a way that operates on freed objects.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/18700 http://secunia.com/advisories/18704 http://secunia.com/advisories/19862 http://secunia.com/advisories/19863 http://secunia.com/advisories/19902 http://secunia.com/advisories/19941 http://secunia.com/advisories/21622 http://secunia.com/advisories/22065 http://securitytracker.com/id?1015570 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102550-1 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-228526-1 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-205.htm http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1044 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1046 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1051 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200604-18.xml http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-01.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/438730/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/446657/100/200/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16476 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0413 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3391 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3749 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=322045 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24430 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42654 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A1494