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Vulnerability record · CVE-2006-0749 · published 14 April 2006

CVE-2006-0749: Mozilla firefox vulnerability

Mozilla · Firefox

nsHTMLContentSink.cpp in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird 1.x before 1.5 and 1.0.x before 1.0.8, Mozilla Suite before 1.7.13, and SeaMonkey before 1.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors involving a "particular sequence of HTML tags" that leads to memory corruption.

9.3 CVSS 2.0 High EPSS 10% · top 4.4% CWE-399 · CWE-399
9.3CVSS 2.0 base score
10%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
4Affected product versions listed by NVD
122References
16 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

nsHTMLContentSink.cpp in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird 1.x before 1.5 and 1.0.x before 1.0.8, Mozilla Suite before 1.7.13, and SeaMonkey before 1.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors involving a "particular sequence of HTML tags" that leads to memory corruption.

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

4 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

LinkTags
ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/SCOSA-2006.26/SCOSA-2006.26.txt Third Party Advisory
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060404-01-U.asc Broken Link
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Apr/0003.html Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/19631 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19696 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19714 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19721 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19729 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19746 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19759 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19780 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19794 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19811 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19821 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19823 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19852 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19862 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19863 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19902 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19941 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19950 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/20051 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/21033 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/21622 Third Party Advisory
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/729 Third Party Advisory
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102550-1 Broken Link
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-228526-1 Broken Link
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-205.htm Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1044 Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1046 Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1051 Third Party Advisory
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200604-12.xml Third Party Advisory
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200604-18.xml Third Party Advisory
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200605-09.xml Third Party Advisory
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/736934 Third Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:075 Third Party Advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:076 Third Party Advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:078 Third Party Advisory
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-18.html Vendor Advisory
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html Broken Link

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2006-0749), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-26). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.