CVE-2010-1121
Description
Mozilla Firefox 3.6.x before 3.6.3 does not properly manage the scopes of DOM nodes that are moved from one document to another, which allows remote attackers to conduct use-after-free attacks and execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors involving improper interaction with garbage collection, as demonstrated by Nils during a Pwn2Own competition at CanSecWest 2010.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2010/02/15/pwn2own-2010
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/043369.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/043405.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-07/msg00005.html
- http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20001126-245.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/40323
- http://secunia.com/advisories/40326
- http://secunia.com/advisories/40401
- http://secunia.com/advisories/40481
- http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100091069
- http://twitter.com/thezdi/statuses/11005277222
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-930-1
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-25.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0500.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0501.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1023817
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-930-2
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1557
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1592
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1640
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1773
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=555109
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10924
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6844
- http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2010/02/15/pwn2own-2010
CWEs
CWE-94
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.