Mozilla Firefox Regular Expressions Heap Corruption

  Severity: MEDIUM
  CVE Identifier: CVE-2006-4566
  Advisory Date: FEB 04, 2011

  DESCRIPTION

There exists a memory corruption vulnerability in Mozilla Foundation?s family of browser products. The flaw is caused by a heap-based buffer overflow when parsing crafted regular expressions. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code in the security context of the target browser.

  TREND MICRO PROTECTION INFORMATION

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