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CVE-2006-4566 json

Mozilla Firefox before 1.5.0.7, Thunderbird before 1.5.0.7, and SeaMonkey before 1.0.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service…

published 2006-09-15 20 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2006-4554

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.1%
EPSS 4.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 90%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Mozilla Firefox before 1.5.0.7, Thunderbird before 1.5.0.7, and SeaMonkey before 1.0.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed JavaScript regular expression that ends with a backslash in an unterminated character set ("[\\"), which leads to a buffer over-read.

Patch / fix

  • thunderbird Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.5.0.7-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2006-4566

  • thunderbird RHEL 4 1.5.0.7-0.1.el4
  • seamonkey RHEL 3 1.0.5-0.1.el3
  • seamonkey RHEL 4 1.0.5-0.1.el4
  • devhelp RHEL 4 0.10-0.4.el4
  • seamonkey-nss RHEL 3 1.0.5-0.1.el3
  • seamonkey-chat RHEL 3 1.0.5-0.1.el3
  • seamonkey-chat RHEL 4 1.0.5-0.1.el4
  • seamonkey-mail RHEL 3 1.0.5-0.1.el3

red hat advisories RHSA-2006:0677RHSA-2006:0676RHSA-2006:0675

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-2006-4566 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 seamonkey 1.0.5-0.1.el3, seamonkey-nss 1.0.5-0.1.el3, seamonkey-chat 1.0.5-0.1.el3, seamonkey-mail 1.0.5-0.1.el3, seamonkey-nspr 1.0.5-0.1.el3, seamonkey-js-debugger 1.0.5-0.1.el3, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 seamonkey 1.0.5-0.1.el3, seamonkey-nss 1.0.5-0.1.el3, seamonkey-chat 1.0.5-0.1.el3, seamonkey-mail 1.0.5-0.1.el3, seamonkey-nspr 1.0.5-0.1.el3, seamonkey-js-debugger 1.0.5-0.1.el3, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 devhelp 0.10-0.4.el4, firefox 1.5.0.7-0.1.el4, seamonkey 1.0.5-0.1.el4, thunderbird 1.5.0.7-0.1.el4, seamonkey-chat 1.0.5-0.1.el4, seamonkey-mail 1.0.5-0.1.el4, +2 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 devhelp 0.10-0.4.el4, firefox 1.5.0.7-0.1.el4, seamonkey 1.0.5-0.1.el4, thunderbird 1.5.0.7-0.1.el4, seamonkey-chat 1.0.5-0.1.el4, seamonkey-mail 1.0.5-0.1.el4, +2 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 seamonkey 1.0.5-0.1.el3, seamonkey-nss 1.0.5-0.1.el3, seamonkey-chat 1.0.5-0.1.el3, seamonkey-mail 1.0.5-0.1.el3, seamonkey-nspr 1.0.5-0.1.el3, seamonkey-js-debugger 1.0.5-0.1.el3, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 devhelp 0.10-0.4.el4, firefox 1.5.0.7-0.1.el4, seamonkey 1.0.5-0.1.el4, thunderbird 1.5.0.7-0.1.el4, seamonkey-chat 1.0.5-0.1.el4, seamonkey-mail 1.0.5-0.1.el4, +2 more
    +2 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 seamonkey 1.0.5-0.1.el3, seamonkey-nss 1.0.5-0.1.el3, seamonkey-chat 1.0.5-0.1.el3, seamonkey-mail 1.0.5-0.1.el3, seamonkey-nspr 1.0.5-0.1.el3, seamonkey-js-debugger 1.0.5-0.1.el3, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 devhelp 0.10-0.4.el4, firefox 1.5.0.7-0.1.el4, seamonkey 1.0.5-0.1.el4, thunderbird 1.5.0.7-0.1.el4, seamonkey-chat 1.0.5-0.1.el4, seamonkey-mail 1.0.5-0.1.el4, +2 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2006:0676

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Exploit prediction

4.08% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 90% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/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.