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CVE-2006-6498 Detail

Current Description

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the JavaScript engine for Mozilla Firefox 2.x before 2.0.0.1, 1.5.x before 1.5.0.9, Thunderbird before 1.5.0.9, SeaMonkey before 1.0.7, and Mozilla 1.7 and probably earlier on Solaris, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown impact and attack vectors.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20061202-01-P.asc CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2297 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2338 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00771742 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0758.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0759.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0760.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/23282 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/23420 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/23422 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/23433 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/23439 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/23440 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/23468 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/23514 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/23545 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/23589 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/23591 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/23601 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/23614 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/23618 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/23672 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/23692 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/23988 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/24078 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/24390 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/25556 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-02.xml CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017398 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017405 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017406 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102955-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1253 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1258 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1265 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200701-04.xml CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/427972 CVE, Inc., Red Hat US Government Resource 
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/447772 CVE, Inc., Red Hat US Government Resource 
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-68.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_80_mozilla.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_06_mozilla.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455145/100/0/threaded CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455728/100/200/threaded CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21668 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-398-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-398-2 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-400-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-354A.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat US Government Resource 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5068 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2106 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0083 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-883 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10661 CVE, Inc., Red Hat

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
NVD-CWE-noinfo Insufficient Information cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2006-6498
NVD Published Date:
12/19/2006
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.