National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-3658
Original release date:12/21/2011
Last revised:02/15/2013
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The SVG implementation in Mozilla Firefox 8.0, Thunderbird 8.0, and SeaMonkey 2.5 does not properly interact with DOMAttrModified event handlers, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds memory access) or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors involving removal of SVG elements.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
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=708186
External Source: XF
Name: firefox-domattrmodified-code-exec(71910)
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-1401-1
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1026447
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1026446
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1026445
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-55.html
Type: Advisory
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2011:192
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 49055
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 48823
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 48553
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 48495
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 47334
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 47302
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14664
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 77953
External Source: SUSE
Name: openSUSE-SU-2012:0417
External Source: SUSE
Name: openSUSE-SU-2012:0039
External Source: SUSE
Name: openSUSE-SU-2012:0007
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14664
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
Technical Details
- Resource Management Errors (CWE-399)