CVE-2006-5783 - Maximal Reach

Description

DISPUTED 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.

Reference

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450730/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450476/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450424/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450398/100/0/threaded