PT-2010-1990 · Mozilla+2 · Thunderbird+4

Published

2010-03-30

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Updated

2024-12-12

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CVE-2010-0176

CVSS v2.0

9.3

High

VectorAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 3.0.19 Mozilla Firefox versions 3.5.x prior to 3.5.9 Mozilla Firefox versions 3.6.x prior to 3.6.2 Thunderbird versions prior to 3.0.4 SeaMonkey versions prior to 2.0.4
Description The issue is related to a dangling pointer vulnerability, where remote attackers might execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors that trigger access to deleted elements. This is due to the improper management of reference counts for option elements in a XUL tree optgroup.
Recommendations For Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 3.0.19, update to version 3.0.19 or later. For Mozilla Firefox versions 3.5.x prior to 3.5.9, update to version 3.5.9 or later. For Mozilla Firefox versions 3.6.x prior to 3.6.2, update to version 3.6.2 or later. For Thunderbird versions prior to 3.0.4, update to version 3.0.4 or later. For SeaMonkey versions prior to 2.0.4, update to version 2.0.4 or later.

Exploit

Fix

RCE

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Weakness Enumeration

Related Identifiers

CVE-2010-0176
DSA-2027-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2014_1100-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10230-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1
RHSA-2010:0332
RHSA-2010:0333
RHSA-2010:0544
RHSA-2010:0545
RHSA-2010_0332
RHSA-2010_0333
RHSA-2010_0544
RHSA-2010_0545
ZDI-10-048

Affected Products

Firefox
Red Hat
Seamonkey
Suse
Thunderbird