HTTP: Mozilla Products Malformed Regular Expressions

This signature detects attempts to exploit a known vulnerability in the Mozilla Internet suite. A successful attack can lead to a buffer overflow and arbitrary remote code execution within the context of the client.

Extended Description

The Mozilla Foundation has released six security advisories specifying vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox, SeaMonkey, and Thunderbird. These vulnerabilities allow attackers to: - execute arbitrary code - perform cross-site scripting attacks - supply malicious data through updates - inject arbitrary content - execute arbitrary JavaScript - crash affected applications and potentially execute arbitrary code. Other attacks may also be possible. The issues described here will be split into individual BIDs as more information becomes available. These issues are fixed in: - Mozilla Firefox version 1.5.0.7 - Mozilla Thunderbird version 1.5.0.7 - Mozilla SeaMonkey version 1.0.5

Affected Products

Mozilla thunderbird

References

BugTraq: 20042

CVE: CVE-2006-4566

Short Name
HTTP:STC:MOZILLA:MAL-REG-EX
Severity
Minor
Recommended
False
Recommended Action
None
Category
HTTP
Keywords
CVE-2006-4566 Expressions Malformed Mozilla Products Regular bid:20042
Release Date
09/22/2010
Supported Platforms

srx-branch-12.3

srx-19.3

srx-branch-19.3

vsrx3bsd-19.2

srx-branch-19.4

vsrx-19.4

mx-12.3

mx-19.4

vmx-19.4

mx-19.3

vsrx3bsd-19.4

srx-19.4

vsrx-12.3

vmx-19.3

vsrx-19.2

srx-12.3

Sigpack Version
3375
False Positive
Unknown
Vendors

Red_hat

Suse

Gnome

Gentoo

Rpath

Mozilla

Avaya

Debian

Sgi

Novell

Slackware

Ubuntu

Mandriva

Netscape

Galeon

CVSS Score

5.0

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