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CVE-2011-2378

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered Topic
2011-08-16 mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2011-2378
Phase Assigned(20110603)

Description

The appendChild function in Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.20, Thunderbird 3.x before 3.1.12, SeaMonkey 2.x, and possibly other products does not properly handle DOM objects, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors that lead to dereferencing of a "dangling pointer."

References

Source Reference
CONFIRM http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-30.html
CONFIRM https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=648065
DEBIAN DSA-2295
DEBIAN DSA-2296
DEBIAN DSA-2297
MANDRIVA MDVSA-2011:127
REDHAT RHSA-2011:1164
REDHAT RHSA-2011:1166
SUSE SUSE-SA:2011:037
SUSE SUSE-SU-2011:0967
OVAL oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14163