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Vulnerability record · CVE-2006-1739 · published 14 April 2006

CVE-2006-1739: Mozilla firefox memory buffer overflow vulnerability

Mozilla · Firefox

The CSS border-rendering code 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 certain Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) that causes an out-of-bounds array write and buffer overflow.

9.3 CVSS 2.0 High EPSS 8.3% · top 5.3% CWE-119 · Memory buffer overflow
9.3CVSS 2.0 base score
8.3%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
4Affected product versions listed by NVD
116References
16 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

The CSS border-rendering code 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 certain Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) that causes an out-of-bounds array write and buffer overflow.

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
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060404-01-U.asc
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Apr/0003.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/19631 PatchVendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19696 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19714 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19721 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19729 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19746 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19759 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19780 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19794 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19811 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19821 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19823 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19852 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19862 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19863 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19902 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19941 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/19950 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/20051
http://secunia.com/advisories/21033 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/21622 Vendor Advisory
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102550-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-228526-1
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-205.htm
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1044
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1046
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1051
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200604-12.xml
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200604-18.xml
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200605-09.xml
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/935556 US Government Resource
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:075
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:076
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:078
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-11.html PatchVendor Advisory
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-April/msg00153.html

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2006-1739), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-27). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.