National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-2998

Overview

Integer underflow in Mozilla Firefox 3.6.x before 3.6.23 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via JavaScript code containing a large RegExp expression.

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=684815

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=684815

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2011:1341

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1341.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-37.html

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-37.html

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2011:141

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:141

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2011:140

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:140

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2011:139

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:139

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-2317

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2317

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-2313

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2313

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-2312

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2312

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14012

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14012

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SU-2011:1256

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-11/msg00020.html

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14012

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

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14012