Dangling pointer vulnerability in nsTreeSelection

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2010-2753   CVE-2010-2760  

Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2010-54

Dangling pointer vulnerability in nsTreeSelection

Announced
September 7, 2010
Reporter
regenrecht
Impact
Critical
Products
Firefox, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird
Fixed in
  • Firefox 3.5.12
  • Firefox 3.6.9
  • SeaMonkey 2.0.7
  • Thunderbird 3.0.7
  • Thunderbird 3.1.3

Description

Security researcher regenrecht reported via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative that there was a remaining dangling pointer issue leftover from the fix to CVE-2010-2753. Under certain circumstances one of the pointers held by a XUL tree selection could be freed and then later reused, potentially resulting in the execution of attacker-controlled memory.

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