CVE-2006-4566

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    CVE-2006-4566

    Published: 15 Sept 2006Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: Mozilla Firefox before 1.5.0.7, Thunderbird before 1.5.0.7, and SeaMonkey before 1.0.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed JavaScript regular expression that ends with a backslash in an unterminated character set ("[\\"), which leads to a buffer over-read.

    References: ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060901-01-P.asc, http://secunia.com/advisories/21906, http://secunia.com/advisories/21915, http://secunia.com/advisories/21916, http://secunia.com/advisories/21939, http://secunia.com/advisories/21940, http://secunia.com/advisories/21949, http://secunia.com/advisories/21950, http://secunia.com/advisories/22001, http://secunia.com/advisories/22025, http://secunia.com/advisories/22036, http://secunia.com/advisories/22055, http://secunia.com/advisories/22056, http://secunia.com/advisories/22066, http://secunia.com/advisories/22074, http://secunia.com/advisories/22088, http://secunia.com/advisories/22195, http://secunia.com/advisories/22210, http://secunia.com/advisories/22247, http://secunia.com/advisories/22274, http://secunia.com/advisories/22299, http://secunia.com/advisories/22391, http://secunia.com/advisories/22422, http://secunia.com/advisories/22849, http://secunia.com/advisories/24711, http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200609-19.xml, http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200610-01.xml, http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200610-04.xml, http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1192, http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1210, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:168, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:169, http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-57.html, http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_54_mozilla.html, http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0676.html, http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0677.html, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-350-1, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-351-1, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-352-1, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-354-1, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3617, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3748, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1198, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0083, http://secunia.com/advisories/21906, http://secunia.com/advisories/21949, http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0676.html, http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0677.html, http://securitytracker.com/id?1016846, http://securitytracker.com/id?1016847, http://securitytracker.com/id?1016848, http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-224.htm, http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/141528, http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0675.html, http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/446140/100/0/threaded, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20042, http://www.us.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1191, http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=c00771742, https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28958, https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-640, https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9637

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High