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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.3

CVE-2006-2780 json

Integer overflow in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird before 1.5.0.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibl…

published 2006-06-02 20 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2006-2777

cvss
9.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
7.3%
EPSS 7.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 94%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Integer overflow in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird before 1.5.0.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via "jsstr tagify," which leads to memory corruption.

Patch / fix

  • thunderbird Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.5.0.4-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2006-2780

  • 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-2006:0578

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-2006-2780 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 seamonkey 1.0.2-0.1.0.EL3, seamonkey-nss 1.0.2-0.1.0.EL3, seamonkey-chat 1.0.2-0.1.0.EL3, seamonkey-mail 1.0.2-0.1.0.EL3, seamonkey-nspr 1.0.2-0.1.0.EL3, seamonkey-js-debugger 1.0.2-0.1.0.EL3, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 seamonkey 1.0.2-0.1.0.EL3, seamonkey-nss 1.0.2-0.1.0.EL3, seamonkey-chat 1.0.2-0.1.0.EL3, seamonkey-mail 1.0.2-0.1.0.EL3, seamonkey-nspr 1.0.2-0.1.0.EL3, seamonkey-js-debugger 1.0.2-0.1.0.EL3, +1 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2006:0578
  • 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 1.0.2-0.1.0.EL3, seamonkey-nss 1.0.2-0.1.0.EL3, seamonkey-chat 1.0.2-0.1.0.EL3, seamonkey-mail 1.0.2-0.1.0.EL3, seamonkey-nspr 1.0.2-0.1.0.EL3, seamonkey-js-debugger 1.0.2-0.1.0.EL3, +1 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2006:0578
  • 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 1.0.2-0.1.0.EL3, seamonkey-nss 1.0.2-0.1.0.EL3, seamonkey-chat 1.0.2-0.1.0.EL3, seamonkey-mail 1.0.2-0.1.0.EL3, seamonkey-nspr 1.0.2-0.1.0.EL3, seamonkey-js-debugger 1.0.2-0.1.0.EL3, +1 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2006:0578
  • 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

7.25% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94% 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
  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code

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.