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HistoryMay 10, 2011 - 12:00 a.m.

Mozilla Firefox OBJECT mObserverList Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

2011-05-1000:00:00
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www.zerodayinitiative.com
15

10 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

0.12 Low

EPSS

Percentile

95.3%

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Mozilla Firefox. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within Firefox’s handling of observer OBJECTs. If an observer OBJECT is removed from the mObserverList during an iteration of LOOP_OVER_OBSERVERS macro, one can heap spray over |mObserverList.mNext| andchange the execution flow. This would allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code under the context of the user running the browser.

10 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

0.12 Low

EPSS

Percentile

95.3%