VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2011-0084

critical
Published 2011-08-18 · 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 SVGTextElement.getCharNumAtPosition function in Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.20, and 4.x through 5; Thunderbird 3.x before 3.1.12 and other versions before 6; SeaMonkey 2.x before 2.3; and possibly other products does not properly handle SVG text, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors that lead to a "dangling pointer."

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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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
mozilla mozillafirefox{"endIncluding":"3.6.19"}
mozilla mozillafirefox1.0
mozilla mozillafirefox1.0.1
mozilla mozillafirefox1.0.2
mozilla mozillafirefox1.0.3
mozilla mozillafirefox1.0.4
mozilla mozillafirefox1.0.5
mozilla mozillafirefox1.0.6
mozilla mozillafirefox1.0.7
mozilla mozillafirefox1.0.8
mozilla mozillafirefox1.5
mozilla mozillafirefox1.5.0.1
mozilla mozillafirefox1.5.0.2
mozilla mozillafirefox1.5.0.3
mozilla mozillafirefox1.5.0.4
mozilla mozillafirefox1.5.0.5
mozilla mozillafirefox1.5.0.6
mozilla mozillafirefox1.5.0.7
mozilla mozillafirefox1.5.0.8
mozilla mozillafirefox1.5.0.9
mozilla mozillafirefox1.5.0.10
mozilla mozillafirefox1.5.0.11
mozilla mozillafirefox1.5.0.12
mozilla mozillafirefox1.5.1
mozilla mozillafirefox1.5.2
mozilla mozillafirefox1.5.3
mozilla mozillafirefox1.5.4
mozilla mozillafirefox1.5.5
mozilla mozillafirefox1.5.6
mozilla mozillafirefox1.5.7
mozilla mozillafirefox1.5.8
mozilla mozillafirefox2.0
mozilla mozillafirefox2.0.0.1
mozilla mozillafirefox2.0.0.2
mozilla mozillafirefox2.0.0.3
mozilla mozillafirefox2.0.0.4
mozilla mozillafirefox2.0.0.5
mozilla mozillafirefox2.0.0.6
mozilla mozillafirefox2.0.0.7
mozilla mozillafirefox2.0.0.8
mozilla mozillafirefox2.0.0.9
mozilla mozillafirefox2.0.0.10
mozilla mozillafirefox2.0.0.11
mozilla mozillafirefox2.0.0.12
mozilla mozillafirefox2.0.0.13
mozilla mozillafirefox2.0.0.14
mozilla mozillafirefox2.0.0.15
mozilla mozillafirefox2.0.0.16
mozilla mozillafirefox2.0.0.17
mozilla mozillafirefox2.0.0.18
mozilla mozillafirefox2.0.0.19
mozilla mozillafirefox2.0.0.20
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.1
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.2
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.3
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.4
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.5
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.6
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.7
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.8
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.9
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.10
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.11
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.12
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.13
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.14
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.15
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.16
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.17
mozilla mozillafirefox3.5
mozilla mozillafirefox3.5.1
mozilla mozillafirefox3.5.2
mozilla mozillafirefox3.5.3
mozilla mozillafirefox3.5.4
mozilla mozillafirefox3.5.5
mozilla mozillafirefox3.5.6
mozilla mozillafirefox3.5.7
mozilla mozillafirefox3.5.8
mozilla mozillafirefox3.5.9
mozilla mozillafirefox3.5.10
mozilla mozillafirefox3.5.11
mozilla mozillafirefox3.5.12
mozilla mozillafirefox3.5.13
mozilla mozillafirefox3.5.14
mozilla mozillafirefox3.5.15
mozilla mozillafirefox3.5.16
mozilla mozillafirefox3.5.17
mozilla mozillafirefox3.5.18
mozilla mozillafirefox3.5.19
mozilla mozillafirefox3.6
mozilla mozillafirefox3.6.2
mozilla mozillafirefox3.6.3
mozilla mozillafirefox3.6.4
mozilla mozillafirefox3.6.6
mozilla mozillafirefox3.6.7
mozilla mozillafirefox3.6.8
mozilla mozillafirefox3.6.9
mozilla mozillafirefox3.6.10
mozilla mozillafirefox3.6.11
mozilla mozillafirefox3.6.12
mozilla mozillafirefox3.6.13
mozilla mozillafirefox3.6.14
mozilla mozillafirefox3.6.15
mozilla mozillafirefox3.6.16
mozilla mozillafirefox3.6.17
mozilla mozillafirefox3.6.18
mozilla mozillafirefox4.0
mozilla mozillafirefox4.0.1
mozilla mozillafirefox5.0
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.1
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.2
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.3
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.4
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.5
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.6
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.7
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.8
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.9
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.10
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.11
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.12
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.13
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.14
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.1
mozilla mozillathunderbird3.0
mozilla mozillathunderbird3.0.1
mozilla mozillathunderbird3.0.2
mozilla mozillathunderbird3.0.3
mozilla mozillathunderbird3.0.4
mozilla mozillathunderbird3.0.5
mozilla mozillathunderbird3.0.6
mozilla mozillathunderbird3.0.7
mozilla mozillathunderbird3.0.8
mozilla mozillathunderbird3.0.9
mozilla mozillathunderbird3.0.10
mozilla mozillathunderbird3.0.11
mozilla mozillathunderbird3.1
mozilla mozillathunderbird3.1.1
mozilla mozillathunderbird3.1.2
mozilla mozillathunderbird3.1.3
mozilla mozillathunderbird3.1.4
mozilla mozillathunderbird3.1.5
mozilla mozillathunderbird3.1.6
mozilla mozillathunderbird3.1.7
mozilla mozillathunderbird3.1.8
mozilla mozillathunderbird3.1.9
mozilla mozillathunderbird3.1.10
mozilla mozillathunderbird3.1.11

References

CWEs

CWE-94

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