CVE-2006-1742 Information

Description

The JavaScript engine in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird 1.x before 1.5 and 1.0.x before 1.0.8 Mozilla Suite before 1.7.13 and SeaMonkey before 1.0 does not properly handle temporary variables that are not garbage collected which might allow remote attackers to trigger operations on freed memory and cause memory corruption.

Reference

ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/SCOSA-2006.26/SCOSA-2006.26.txt ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060404-01-U.asc http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Apr/0003.html http://secunia.com/advisories/19631 http://secunia.com/advisories/19696 http://secunia.com/advisories/19714 http://secunia.com/advisories/19721 http://secunia.com/advisories/19729 http://secunia.com/advisories/19746 http://secunia.com/advisories/19759 http://secunia.com/advisories/19780 http://secunia.com/advisories/19794 http://secunia.com/advisories/19811 http://secunia.com/advisories/19823 http://secunia.com/advisories/19852 http://secunia.com/advisories/19862 http://secunia.com/advisories/19863 http://secunia.com/advisories/19902 http://secunia.com/advisories/19941 http://secunia.com/advisories/19950 http://secunia.com/advisories/20051 http://secunia.com/advisories/21033 http://secunia.com/advisories/21622 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-200604-12.xml http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200604-18.xml http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200605-09.xml http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/492382 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:075 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:076 http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-10.html http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-April/msg00153.html http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-April/msg00154.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0328.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0329.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0330.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/436296/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/436338/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/438730/100/0/threaded http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1356 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25807 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A1087 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A11808 https://usn.ubuntu.com/271-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/275-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/276-1/