National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-1179

Overview

The SPICE Firefox plug-in (spice-xpi) 2.4, 2.3, 2.2, and possibly other versions allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to (1) plugin/nsScriptablePeer.cpp and (2) plugin/plugin.cpp, which trigger multiple uses of an uninitialized pointer.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=689931

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=689931

External Source: MISC

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=487006&action=diff

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=487006&action=diff

External Source: XF

Name: spicexpi-pointer-privilege-escalation(66777)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/66777

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2011-0899

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0899

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1025304

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025304

External Source: BID

Name: 47269

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47269

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2011:0427

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0427.html

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2011:0426

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0426.html

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 44060

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/44060