CVE-2006-6498
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.8EPSS 4.4%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- EPSS score
- 4.4% (91th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2006-6481)
- Published
- December 20, 2006
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2006-6481 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / mozilla
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / thunderbird
- mozilla / thunderbird
- mozilla / thunderbird
- mozilla / thunderbird
- mozilla / thunderbird
- mozilla / thunderbird
- mozilla / thunderbird
- mozilla / thunderbird
- mozilla / thunderbird
- mozilla / thunderbird
- mozilla / thunderbird
- mozilla / thunderbird
- mozilla / thunderbird
- mozilla / thunderbird
- mozilla / thunderbird
- mozilla / thunderbird
- mozilla / thunderbird
- mozilla / thunderbird
- mozilla / thunderbird
- mozilla / thunderbird
- mozilla / thunderbird
- mozilla / thunderbird
- mozilla / thunderbird
- mozilla / thunderbird
- mozilla / thunderbird
- mozilla / thunderbird
- mozilla / thunderbird
- mozilla / thunderbird
- mozilla / thunderbird
- mozilla / thunderbird
References
- ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20061202-01-P.asc
- http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2297
- http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2338
- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00771742
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0758.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0759.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0760.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23282(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23420(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23422(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23433(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23439(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23440(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23468(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23514(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23545(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23589(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23591(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23601(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23614(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23618(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23672(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23692(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23988(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24078(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24390(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25556(Vendor Advisory)
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-02.xml
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017398
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017405
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017406
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102955-1
- http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1253
- http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1258
- http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1265
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200701-04.xml
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/427972(US Government Resource)
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/447772(US Government Resource)
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-68.html
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_80_mozilla.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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