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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2006-0292 json

The Javascript interpreter (jsinterp.c) in Mozilla and Firefox before 1.5.1 does not properly dereference objects, which allows remote atta…

published 2006-02-02 20 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2006-0299

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.6%
EPSS 4.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 91%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The Javascript interpreter (jsinterp.c) in Mozilla and Firefox before 1.5.1 does not properly dereference objects, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via unknown attack vectors related to garbage collection.

Patch / fix

  • thunderbird Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.5.0.2-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2006-0292

  • thunderbird RHEL 4 1.0.8-1.4.1
  • firefox RHEL 4 1.0.7-1.4.3

red hat advisories RHSA-2006:0330RHSA-2006:0200

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-2006-0292 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 firefox 1.0.7-1.4.3, thunderbird 1.0.8-1.4.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 firefox 1.0.7-1.4.3, thunderbird 1.0.8-1.4.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 firefox 1.0.7-1.4.3, thunderbird 1.0.8-1.4.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 firefox 1.0.7-1.4.3, thunderbird 1.0.8-1.4.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2006:0200

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

4.58% 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 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/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.