CVE-2011-2378

CVE Details

Release Date:	2011-08-18
Impact:	Critical	What is this?

Description

The appendChild function in Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.20, Thunderbird 3.x before 3.1.12, SeaMonkey 2.x, and possibly other products does not properly handle DOM objects, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors that lead to dereferencing of a dangling pointer.

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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	10.0
Vector String:	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Network
Attack Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	Complete
Integrity Impact:	Complete
Availability Impact:	Complete

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (firefox)	ELSA-2011-1164	2011-08-16
Oracle Linux version 5 (firefox)	ELSA-2011-1164	2011-08-16
Oracle Linux version 5 (xulrunner)	ELSA-2011-1164	2011-08-16
Oracle Linux version 6 (firefox)	ELSA-2011-1164	2011-08-16
Oracle Linux version 6 (thunderbird)	ELSA-2011-1166	2011-08-16
Oracle Linux version 6 (xulrunner)	ELSA-2011-1164	2011-08-16