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CVE-2006-6504 Detail

Description

Mozilla Firefox 2.x before 2.0.0.1, 1.5.x before 1.5.0.9, and SeaMonkey before 1.0.7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by appending an SVG comment DOM node to another type of document, which triggers memory corruption.


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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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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 Broken Link 
http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2297 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2338 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00771742 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0758.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0759.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0760.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/23282 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/23422 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/23433 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/23439 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/23440 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/23468 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/23514 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/23545 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/23589 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/23601 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/23614 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/23618 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/23672 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/23692 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-02.xml CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017417 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017418 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200701-04.xml CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/928956 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  US Government Resource 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:010 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-73.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_80_mozilla.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_06_mozilla.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/454939/100/0/threaded 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 Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-398-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-398-2 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-354A.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  US Government Resource 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5068 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0083 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-06-051.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-883 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11077 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection') cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2006-6504
NVD Published Date:
12/19/2006
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.