Mozilla Firefox up to 2.0 denial of service ⚔ [Disputed]

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Mozilla Firefox. The affected element is an unknown function. The manipulation leads to denial of service. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2006-5160. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. The actual existence of this vulnerability is currently in question.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox (Web Browser) and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. Impacted is availability. The summary by CVE is:

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox have unspecified vectors and impact, as claimed during ToorCon 2006. NOTE: the vendor and original researchers have released a follow-up comment disputing this issue, in which one researcher states that "I have no undisclosed Firefox vulnerabilities. The person who was speaking with me made this claim, and I honestly have no idea if he has them or not.

The weakness was released 10/05/2006 by Andrew (Website). The advisory is shared at securitypronews.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2006-5160 since 10/03/2006. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1499 for this issue.

The real existence of this vulnerability is still doubted at the moment.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at SecurityFocus (BID 20294†). Entry connected to this vulnerability is available at VDB-32620. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Type

• Web Browser

Vendor

• Mozilla

Name

• Firefox

Version

• 0.8
• 0.9
• 0.9.1
• 0.9.2
• 0.9.3
• 0.10
• 0.10.1
• 1.0
• 1.0.1
• 1.0.2
• 1.0.3
• 1.0.4
• 1.0.5
• 1.0.6
• 1.0.7
• 1.0.8
• 1.5
• 1.5.0.1
• 1.5.0.2
• 1.5.3
• 1.5.4
• 1.5.5
• 1.5.6
• 1.5.7
• 1.5.8
• 2.0

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.mozilla.org/
• Product: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

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