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critical 9.3

CVE-2006-1730 in the critical feed json

Integer overflow in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird 1.x before 1.5.0.2 and 1.0.x before 1.0.8, Mozilla Suite before 1.7.13, and SeaMonkey b…

published 2006-04-14 20 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2006-1730

cvss
9.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
10.3%
EPSS 10.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 95%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Integer overflow in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird 1.x before 1.5.0.2 and 1.0.x before 1.0.8, Mozilla Suite before 1.7.13, and SeaMonkey before 1.0.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large number in the CSS letter-spacing property that leads to a heap-based buffer overflow.

Patch / fix

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

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2006-1730

  • thunderbird RHEL 4 1.0.8-1.4.1
  • devhelp RHEL 4 0.9.2-2.4.8
  • firefox RHEL 4 1.0.8-1.4.1

red hat advisories RHSA-2006:0330RHSA-2006:0329RHSA-2006:0328

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-2006-1730 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 devhelp 0.9.2-2.4.8, firefox 1.0.8-1.4.1, thunderbird 1.0.8-1.4.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 devhelp 0.9.2-2.4.8, firefox 1.0.8-1.4.1, thunderbird 1.0.8-1.4.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 devhelp 0.9.2-2.4.8, firefox 1.0.8-1.4.1, thunderbird 1.0.8-1.4.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 devhelp 0.9.2-2.4.8, firefox 1.0.8-1.4.1, thunderbird 1.0.8-1.4.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2006:0329

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Exploit prediction

10.34% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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