CVE-2010-3179
HIGHEPSS 95th pctlDescription
Stack-based buffer overflow in the text-rendering functionality in Mozilla Firefox before 3.5.14 and 3.6.x before 3.6.11, Thunderbird before 3.0.9 and 3.1.x before 3.1.5, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.9 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via a long argument to the document.write method.
CVSS v2 Vector
No CVSS vector data available.
Exploit Intelligence
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 95% of all known CVEs.
References
- http://blogs.sun.com/security/entry/multiple_vulnerabilities_in_mozilla_firefox
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/050077.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/050154.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42867
- http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100120156
- http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2124
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:210
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:211
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-65.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0782.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0861.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0896.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-997-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-998-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0061
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=583077
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11675
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