| Name | CVE-2006-1742 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-1044-1, DSA-1046-1, DSA-1051-1 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| firefox (PTS) | sid | 132.0.1-1 | fixed |
| thunderbird (PTS) | bullseye | 1:115.12.0-1~deb11u1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 1:128.4.0esr-1~deb11u1 | fixed | |
| bookworm | 1:115.12.0-1~deb12u1 | fixed | |
| bookworm (security) | 1:128.4.0esr-1~deb12u1 | fixed | |
| trixie | 1:128.4.0esr-1 | fixed | |
| sid | 1:128.4.2esr-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| firefox | source | (unstable) | 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.2-2 | medium | ||
| mozilla | source | sarge | 2:1.7.8-1sarge5 | DSA-1046-1 | ||
| mozilla | source | (unstable) | 2:1.7.13-0.1 | medium | ||
| mozilla-firefox | source | sarge | 1.0.4-2sarge6 | DSA-1044-1 | ||
| mozilla-firefox | source | (unstable) | 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.2-2 | medium | ||
| mozilla-thunderbird | source | sarge | 1.0.2-2.sarge1.0.8 | low | ||
| thunderbird | source | (unstable) | 1.5.0.2-1 | low | ||
| xulrunner | source | (unstable) | 1.8.0.1-9 |
The Mozilla Foundation labels this as "critical", but it's not
clear if this bug is exploitable.