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medium 5.1

CVE-2006-3803 json

Race condition in the JavaScript garbage collection in Mozilla Firefox 1.5 before 1.5.0.5, Thunderbird before 1.5.0.5, and SeaMonkey before…

published 2006-07-27 20 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2006-3797

cvss
5.1
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.5%
EPSS 4.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 91%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Race condition in the JavaScript garbage collection in Mozilla Firefox 1.5 before 1.5.0.5, Thunderbird before 1.5.0.5, and SeaMonkey before 1.0.3 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by causing the garbage collector to delete a temporary variable while it is still being used during the creation of a new Function object.

Patch / fix

  • thunderbird Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.5.0.5-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2006-3803

  • thunderbird RHEL 4 1.5.0.5-0.el4.1
  • firefox RHEL 4 1.5.0.5-0.el4.1
  • seamonkey RHEL 4 1.0.3-0.el4.1
  • devhelp RHEL 4 0.10-0.2.el4
  • seamonkey-chat RHEL 4 1.0.3-0.el4.1
  • seamonkey-mail RHEL 4 1.0.3-0.el4.1
  • seamonkey-js-debugger RHEL 4 1.0.3-0.el4.1
  • seamonkey-dom-inspector RHEL 4 1.0.3-0.el4.1

red hat advisories RHSA-2006:0611RHSA-2006:0610RHSA-2006:0609RHSA-2006:0608

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2006-3803 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 seamonkey 1.0.3-0.el3.1, seamonkey-nss 1.0.3-0.el3.1, seamonkey-chat 1.0.3-0.el3.1, seamonkey-mail 1.0.3-0.el3.1, seamonkey-nspr 1.0.3-0.el3.1, seamonkey-js-debugger 1.0.3-0.el3.1, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 seamonkey 1.0.3-0.el3.1, seamonkey-nss 1.0.3-0.el3.1, seamonkey-chat 1.0.3-0.el3.1, seamonkey-mail 1.0.3-0.el3.1, seamonkey-nspr 1.0.3-0.el3.1, seamonkey-js-debugger 1.0.3-0.el3.1, +1 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2006:0608
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 devhelp 0.10-0.2.el4, firefox 1.5.0.5-0.el4.1, seamonkey 1.0.3-0.el4.1, thunderbird 1.5.0.5-0.el4.1, seamonkey-chat 1.0.3-0.el4.1, seamonkey-mail 1.0.3-0.el4.1, +2 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 devhelp 0.10-0.2.el4, firefox 1.5.0.5-0.el4.1, seamonkey 1.0.3-0.el4.1, thunderbird 1.5.0.5-0.el4.1, seamonkey-chat 1.0.3-0.el4.1, seamonkey-mail 1.0.3-0.el4.1, +2 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2006:0609
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 2.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2006:0594
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 seamonkey 1.0.3-0.el3.1, seamonkey-nss 1.0.3-0.el3.1, seamonkey-chat 1.0.3-0.el3.1, seamonkey-mail 1.0.3-0.el3.1, seamonkey-nspr 1.0.3-0.el3.1, seamonkey-js-debugger 1.0.3-0.el3.1, +1 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2006:0608
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 devhelp 0.10-0.2.el4, firefox 1.5.0.5-0.el4.1, seamonkey 1.0.3-0.el4.1, thunderbird 1.5.0.5-0.el4.1, seamonkey-chat 1.0.3-0.el4.1, seamonkey-mail 1.0.3-0.el4.1, +2 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2006:0609
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 2.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2006:0594
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 seamonkey 1.0.3-0.el3.1, seamonkey-nss 1.0.3-0.el3.1, seamonkey-chat 1.0.3-0.el3.1, seamonkey-mail 1.0.3-0.el3.1, seamonkey-nspr 1.0.3-0.el3.1, seamonkey-js-debugger 1.0.3-0.el3.1, +1 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2006:0608
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 devhelp 0.10-0.2.el4, firefox 1.5.0.5-0.el4.1, seamonkey 1.0.3-0.el4.1, thunderbird 1.5.0.5-0.el4.1, seamonkey-chat 1.0.3-0.el4.1, seamonkey-mail 1.0.3-0.el4.1, +2 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2006:0609
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  • Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2006:0594

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Exploit prediction

4.46% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.1 AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.