Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2012-08
Crash with malformed embedded XSLT stylesheets
- Announced
- January 31, 2012
- Reporter
- Nicolas Grégoire, Aki Helin
- Impact
- Critical
- Products
- Firefox, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird
- Fixed in
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- Firefox 10
- Firefox 3.6.26
- SeaMonkey 2.7
- Thunderbird 10
- Thunderbird 3.1.18
Description
Security researchers Nicolas Grégoire and Aki Helin independently reported that when processing a malformed embedded XSLT stylesheet, Firefox can crash due to a memory corruption. While there is no evidence that this is directly exploitable, there is a possibility of remote code execution.