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Sid
18176

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Summary:
This event is generated when an attempt is made to exploit a known vulnerability in firefox.

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Impact:
Denial of Service. Information disclosure. Loss of integrity. 

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Detailed Information:
Mozilla Firefox 1.5 before 1.5.0.5, Thunderbird before 1.5.0.5, and SeaMonkey before 1.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via simultaneous XPCOM events, which causes a timer object to be deleted in a way that triggers memory corruption.

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Affected Systems:
mozilla firefox 1.5
mozilla firefox 1.5.0.1
mozilla firefox 1.5.0.2
mozilla firefox 1.5.0.3
mozilla firefox 1.5.0.4

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Attack Scenarios:


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Ease of Attack:
Medium.

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False Positives:
None known.

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False Negatives:
None known.

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Corrective Action:
Upgrade to the latest non-affected version of the software.

Apply the appropriate vendor supplied patches.

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Contributors:
Sourcefire Vulnerability Research Team
This document was generated from data supplied by the National Vulnerability Database. A product of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
For more information see http://nvd.nist.gov/

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Additional References:

NIST CVE-2006-3113:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2006-3113
  
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