Mozilla Firefox before 1.5.0.7, Thunderbird before 1.5.0.7, and SeaMonkey before 1.0.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed JavaScript regular expression that ends with a backslash in an unterminated character set ("[\\"), which leads to a buffer over-read.
CVE-2006-4566
- No confirmed exploitation signals yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- —
- EG Score
- 0.0(none)
- EPSS
- 88.7%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
September 15, 2006
Last Modified
April 16, 2026
References (114)
- secalert@redhatftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060901-01-P.asc
- secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/21906
- secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/21915
- secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/21916
- secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/21939
- secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/21940
- secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/21949
- secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/21950
- secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/22001
- secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/22025
- secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/22036
- secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/22055
- secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/22056
- secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/22066
- secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/22074
Patch Availability(6)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | libnss3 (1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.7-ubuntu0.6.06) @ dapper | 2026-05-31 | ubuntu |
| ubuntu | mozilla-thunderbird-locale-uk (1.5-ubuntu5.10) @ breezy | 2026-05-31 | ubuntu |
| ubuntu | mozilla-thunderbird (1.5.0.7-0ubuntu0.6.06) @ dapper | 2026-05-31 | ubuntu |
| redhat | thunderbird-0:1.5.0.7-0.1.el4 | 2006-09-15 | redhat |
| redhat | seamonkey-0:1.0.5-0.1.el4 | 2006-09-15 | redhat |
| redhat | firefox-0:1.5.0.7-0.1.el4 | 2006-09-15 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
All Vendor Advisories
(6)
Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.
- Red HatRHSA-2006:0675CRITICAL2006-09-15
RHSA-2006:0675 — Critical
- Red HatRHSA-2006:0676CRITICAL2006-09-15
RHSA-2006:0676 — Critical
- Red HatRHSA-2006:0677CRITICAL2006-09-15
RHSA-2006:0677 — Critical
- UbuntuUSN-350-1MEDIUM
Thunderbird vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-351-1MEDIUM
firefox vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-352-1MEDIUM
Thunderbird vulnerabilities
Data Freshness Timeline
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- 2026-07-13 22:25 UTCEPSS rescore
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- 2026-07-08 19:39 UTCOSV refresh
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- 2026-06-21 01:56 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-20 07:12 UTCOSV refresh
- 2026-06-18 17:49 UTCEPSS rescore
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- 2026-06-01 13:49 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-05-31 06:46 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-05-31 06:46 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-05-31 06:45 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-05-31 00:13 UTCEPSS rescore
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- 2026-05-29 13:40 UTCEPSS rescore
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- 2026-05-22 21:15 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-05-22 21:15 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-05-21 22:06 UTCOSV refresh
- 2026-05-20 22:36 UTCEPSS rescore
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- 2026-05-20 11:20 UTCEPSS rescore
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- 2026-05-18 21:29 UTCEPSS rescore
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