Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2011-49
Title: Memory corruption while profiling using Firebug
Impact: Critical
Announced: November 8, 2011
Reporter: Marc Schoenefeld
Products: Firefox, Thunderbird
Fixed in: Firefox 8.0
Firefox 3.6.24
Thunderbird 8.0
Thunderbird 3.1.16
Description
Marc Schoenefeld reported a crash when using Firebug to profile a JavaScript file with many functions. It may be possible to trigger this crash without the use of debugging APIs, and if so this could be exploitable.
References
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=674776
CVE-2011-3650