| CVE ID | CVE-2006-0749 |
| CVSS SCORE | |
| AFFECTED VENDORS |
Mozilla Firefox |
| AFFECTED PRODUCTS |
1.0.x |
| TREND MICRO CUSTOMER PROTECTION | Trend Micro TippingPoint IPS customers are protected against this vulnerability by Digital Vaccine protection filter ID ['3977']. For further product information on the TippingPoint IPS: http://www.tippingpoint.com |
| VULNERABILITY DETAILS |
This vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of the Mozilla/Firefox web browser and Thunderbird e-mail client. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious e-mail. The specific flaw exists within nsHTMLContentSink.cpp, during the parsing of HTML tags as they appear in a specific order. The flaw results in a memory corruption that leads to an attacker controlled function pointer dereference from the stack and eventually execution of arbitrary code. |
| ADDITIONAL DETAILS |
Mozilla Firefox has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-18.html |
| DISCLOSURE TIMELINE |
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| CREDIT | Anonymous |
