CVE-2006-0293

HIGH 7.5CVE-2006-0293 · Published 02/02/2006 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2006-0293 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting firefox (mozilla).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 3.7%, higher than 89.9% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
firefox mozilla	`= 1.5`	No fix yet

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.

References

secunia.com/advisories/18700
secunia.com/advisories/18704
secunia.com/advisories/19862
secunia.com/advisories/19863
secunia.com/advisories/19902
secunia.com/advisories/19941
secunia.com/advisories/21622
secunia.com/advisories/22065
securitytracker.com/id
sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do
sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do
support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-205.htm
debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1044
debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1046
debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1051
gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200604-18.xml

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