CVE-2006-6015

Publication date 21 November 2006

Last updated 24 July 2024


Ubuntu priority

Negligible

Why this priority?

Buffer overflow in the JavaScript implementation in Safari on Apple Mac OS X 10.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long argument to the exec method of a regular expression.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
kdebase 7.04 feisty Ignored
6.10 edgy Ignored
6.06 LTS dapper Ignored

Notes


kees

This is a browser crash, but is not exploitable. Most simple crashes are not treated as security vulnerabilities for client applications.