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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-5160

Original release date:10/05/2006

Last revised:09/05/2008

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

** DISPUTED ** Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox have unspecified vectors and impact, as claimed during ToorCon 2006. NOTE: the vendor and original researchers have released a follow-up comment disputing this issue, in which one researcher states that "I have no undisclosed Firefox vulnerabilities. The person who was speaking with me made this claim, and I honestly have no idea if he has them or not."

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0 upgrade from v1.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:7.8 (HIGH) (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 6.9

Exploitability Subscore: 10.0

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Network exploitable

Access Complexity: Low

Authentication: Not required to exploit

Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown

Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (10/16/2006)

Red Hat does not consider this issue to be a security vulnerability. We have been in contact with the upstream project regarding this problem and agree that this issue currently poses no security threat. In the event more information becomes available, we will revisit this issue in the future.

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External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.securitypronews.com/insiderreports/insider/spn-49-20061003FirefoxVulnerabilityClaimWasAJoke.html

Hyperlink:http://www.securitypronews.com/insiderreports/insider/spn-49-20061003FirefoxVulnerabilityClaimWasAJoke.html

External Source: BID

Name: 20294

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20294

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20061001 zero-day flaws in Firefox: about 30 unpatched Firefox flaws

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/447493/100/0/threaded

External Source: MISC

Name: http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2006/10/02/update-possible-vulnerability-reported-at-toorcon/