National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-0177
Original release date:04/05/2010
Last revised:08/21/2010
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.19, 3.5.x before 3.5.9, and 3.6.x before 3.6.2, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.4, frees the contents of the window.navigator.plugins array while a reference to an array element is still active, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via unspecified vectors, related to a "dangling pointer vulnerability."
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=538310
External Source: XF
Name: firefox-nspluginarray-code-execution(57393)
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-10-049
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2010-0849
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2010-0781
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2010-0765
Type: Advisory
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2010-0764
Type: Advisory
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2010-0748
Type: Advisory
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20100402 ZDI-10-049: Mozilla Firefox PluginArray nsMimeType Dangling Pointer Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2010:0333
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2010:0332
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-19.html
Type: Advisory
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2010:070
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-2027
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-921-1
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1023776
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 39397
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 39308
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 39243
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 39240
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 39136
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 39117
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 38566
Type: Advisory
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7622
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10833
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2010:013
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10833
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7622
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
Technical Details
- Resource Management Errors (CWE-399)