CVE-2010-0159

critical

Published 2010-02-22 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

10.0

Description

The browser engine in Mozilla Firefox 3.0.x before 3.0.18 and 3.5.x before 3.5.8, Thunderbird before 3.0.2, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to the nsBlockFrame::StealFrame function in layout/generic/nsBlockFrame.cpp, and unspecified other vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Debian Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
5.0	Affected	—

Ubuntu Affected 4 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
9.10	Affected	—
9.04	Affected	—
8.10	Affected	—
8.04	Affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
mozilla	seamonkey	`{"endExcluding":"2.0.3"}`	`2.0.3`
mozilla	thunderbird	`{"endExcluding":"3.0.2"}`	`3.0.2`
mozilla	firefox	`{"startIncluding":"3.0","endExcluding":"3.0.18"}`	`3.0.18`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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