Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2010-18
Dangling pointer vulnerability in nsTreeContentView
- Announced
- March 30, 2010
- Reporter
- regenrecht (via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative)
- Impact
- Critical
- Products
- Firefox, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird
- Fixed in
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- Firefox 3.0.19
- Firefox 3.5.9
- Firefox 3.6.2
- SeaMonkey 2.0.4
- Thunderbird 3.0.4
Description
Security researcher regenrecht reported via
TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative an error in the
way <option> elements are inserted into a XUL
tree <optgroup>. In certain cases, the number of
references to an <option> element is under-counted so
that when the element is deleted, a live pointer to its old location
is kept around and may later be used. An attacker could potentially
use these conditions to run arbitrary code on a victim's computer.
Workaround
Disable JavaScript until a version containing these fixes can be installed.