CVE-2010-1988

critical
Published 2010-05-20 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
10.0

Description

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.3 on Windows XP SP3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via JavaScript code that performs certain string concatenation and substring operations, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-1571.

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.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

windows Windows Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
mozilla mozillafirefox3.6.3

References

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

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.