RCE in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2011-0084
The SVGTextElement.getCharNumAtPosition function in Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.20, and 4.x through 5; Thunderbird 3.x before 3.1.12 and other versions before 6; SeaMonkey 2.x before 2.3; and possibly other products does not properly handle SVG text, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors that lead to a "dangling pointer."
Vulnerability class: RCE (Remote Code Execution)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 10.0 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.048 (91.7th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 92nd percentile — 91.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.048 · newest: 0.048 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2
- Mozilla Seamonkey — versions 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2
- Mozilla Thunderbird — versions 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)
- www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-31.html
- www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-30.html (Vendor Advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2297 (vendor-advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00027.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2296 (vendor-advisory)
- www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-33.html
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1166.html (vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00023.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1164.html (vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)