firefox-esr — security advisory
Mozilla Network Security Service (NSS) library before 3.11.3, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 1.5.0.8, Thunderbird before 1.5.0.8, and SeaMonkey before 1.0.6, when using an RSA key with exponent 3, does not properly handle extra data in a signature, which allows remote attackers to forge signatures for SSL/TLS and email certificates. NOTE: this identifier is for unpatched product versions that were originally intended to be addressed by CVE-2006-4340.
- Products
- firefox-esr
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 45.0esr-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2006-5462
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 20:11 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Mozilla Network Security Service (NSS) library before 3.11.3, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 1.5.0.8, Thunderbird before 1.5.0.8, and SeaMonkey before 1.0.6, when using an RSA key with exponent 3, does not properly handle extra data in a signature, which allows remote attackers to forge signatures for SSL/TLS and email certificates. NOTE: this identifier is for unpatched product versions that were originally intended to be addressed by CVE-2006-4340.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2006-5462
firefox-esr
Fixed versions: 45.0esr-1
firefox-esr
Fixed versions: 45.0esr-1
firefox-esr
Fixed versions: 45.0esr-1
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-22T23:47:22.356249664Z",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 410349,
"published_at": "2006-11-08T21:07:00+00:00"
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