National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-2378

Overview

The appendChild function in Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.20, Thunderbird 3.x before 3.1.12, SeaMonkey 2.x, and possibly other products does not properly handle DOM objects, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors that lead to dereferencing of a "dangling pointer."

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=648065

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=648065

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2011:1166

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1166.html

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2011:1164

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1164.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-30.html

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-30.html

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2011:127

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:127

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-2297

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2297

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-2296

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2296

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-2295

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2295

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14163

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14163

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SU-2011:0967

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00027.html

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SA:2011:037

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00023.html

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14163

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

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14163