National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-2770

Overview

Mozilla Firefox before 3.5.12 and 3.6.x before 3.6.9, Thunderbird before 3.0.7 and 3.1.x before 3.1.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.7 on Mac OS X allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted font in a data: URL.

Description

Per: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-58.html 'and cause a crash on Mac systems. The crash showed signs of memory corruption and presumably could be used by an attacker to execute arbitrary code on a victim's computer.'

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=583520

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=583520

External Source: XF

Name: mozilla-font-code-execution(61663)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/61663

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2010-2323

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2323

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-58.html

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-58.html

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11550

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11550

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SA:2010:049

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00002.html

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11550

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11550