CVE-2006-5783

Publication date 7 November 2006

Last updated 4 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Firefox 1.5.0.7 on Kubuntu Linux allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long URL in an A tag. NOTE: this issue has been disputed by several vendors, who could not reproduce the report. In addition, the scope of the impact - system freeze - suggests an issue that is not related to Firefox. Due to this impact, CVE concurs with the dispute

Status

No maintained releases are affected by this CVE.

Package Ubuntu Release Status
firefox 7.04 feisty
Not affected
6.10 edgy
Not affected
6.06 LTS dapper
Not affected