CVE-2006-4566
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.0EPSS 4.1%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- EPSS score
- 4.1% (91th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2006-4554)
- Published
- September 15, 2006
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2006-4554 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / thunderbird
References
- ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060901-01-P.asc
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21906(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21915
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21916
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21939
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21940
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21949(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21950
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22001
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22025
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22036
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22055
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22056
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22066
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22074
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22088
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22195
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22210
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22247
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22274
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22299
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22391
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22422
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22849
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24711
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200609-19.xml
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200610-01.xml
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200610-04.xml
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1016846
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1016847
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1016848
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-224.htm
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1192
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1210
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/141528(US Government Resource)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:168
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:169
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-57.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_54_mozilla.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0675.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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