CVE-2006-5159

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"

• http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2006/10/02/update-possible-vulnerability-reported-at-toorcon/
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1678
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1016962
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447493/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447497/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20282
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20294
• http://www.securitypronews.com/insiderreports/insider/spn-49-20061003FirefoxVulnerabilityClaimWasAJoke.html
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29317
• http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2006/10/02/update-possible-vulnerability-reported-at-toorcon/
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1678
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1016962
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447493/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447497/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20282
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20294
• http://www.securitypronews.com/insiderreports/insider/spn-49-20061003FirefoxVulnerabilityClaimWasAJoke.html
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29317

Published

Oct 5, 2006

Last Modified

Jun 16, 2026

Status

Modified