Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2010-65

Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2010-65 Title: Buffer overflow and memory corruption using document.write Impact: Critical Announced: October 19, 2010 Reporter: Alexander Miller Products: Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey Fixed in: Firefox 3.6.11 Firefox 3.5.14 Thunderbird 3.1.5 Thunderbird...

Buffer overflow and memory corruption using document.write — Mozilla

Security researcher Alexander Miller reported that passing an excessively long string to document.write could cause text rendering routines to end up in an inconsistent state with sections of stack memory being overwritten with the string data. An attacker could use this flaw to crash a victim's...