Vulnerability Report

CVE-2006-1742

Title: Mozilla Firefox Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2006-1742.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Apr 14, 2006

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

3.88%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2006-1742: The JavaScript engine 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 does not properly handle temporary variables that are not garbage collected, which might allow remote attackers to trigger operations on freed memory and cause memory corruption.

Impacted Vendors

mozilla 4

Reference Links

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 http://secunia.com/advisories/19696 http://secunia.com/advisories/19714 http://secunia.com/advisories/19721 http://secunia.com/advisories/19729 http://secunia.com/advisories/19746 http://secunia.com/advisories/19759 http://secunia.com/advisories/19780 http://secunia.com/advisories/19794 http://secunia.com/advisories/19811 http://secunia.com/advisories/19823 http://secunia.com/advisories/19852 http://secunia.com/advisories/19862 http://secunia.com/advisories/19863 http://secunia.com/advisories/19902 http://secunia.com/advisories/19941 http://secunia.com/advisories/19950 http://secunia.com/advisories/20051 http://secunia.com/advisories/21033 http://secunia.com/advisories/21622 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/492382 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:075 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:076 http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-10.html http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-April/msg00153.html http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-April/msg00154.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0328.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0329.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0330.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/436296/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/436338/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/438730/100/0/threaded http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1356 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25807 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1087 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11808 https://usn.ubuntu.com/271-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/275-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/276-1/ 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 http://secunia.com/advisories/19696 http://secunia.com/advisories/19714 http://secunia.com/advisories/19721 http://secunia.com/advisories/19729 http://secunia.com/advisories/19746 http://secunia.com/advisories/19759 http://secunia.com/advisories/19780 http://secunia.com/advisories/19794 http://secunia.com/advisories/19811 http://secunia.com/advisories/19823 http://secunia.com/advisories/19852 http://secunia.com/advisories/19862 http://secunia.com/advisories/19863 http://secunia.com/advisories/19902 http://secunia.com/advisories/19941 http://secunia.com/advisories/19950 http://secunia.com/advisories/20051 http://secunia.com/advisories/21033 http://secunia.com/advisories/21622 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/492382 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:075 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:076 http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-10.html http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-April/msg00153.html http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-April/msg00154.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0328.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0329.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0330.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/436296/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/436338/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/438730/100/0/threaded http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1356 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25807 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1087 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11808 https://usn.ubuntu.com/271-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/275-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/276-1/

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2006-1742 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

April 14, 2006 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.