CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2010-1208

Use After Free

Published: Jul 30, 2010 | Modified: Apr 11, 2025
CVSS 3.x
8.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
9.3 HIGH
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
6.8 CRITICAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

Use-after-free vulnerability in the attribute-cloning functionality in the DOM implementation in Mozilla Firefox 3.5.x before 3.5.11 and 3.6.x before 3.6.7, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.6, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors related to deletion of an event attribute node with a nonzero reference count.

Weakness

The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory “belongs” to the code that operates on the new pointer.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Firefox Mozilla 3.5 (including) 3.5.11 (excluding)
Firefox Mozilla 3.6 (including) 3.6.7 (excluding)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 RedHat firefox-0:3.6.7-2.el4 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 RedHat firefox-0:3.6.7-2.el5 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 RedHat xulrunner-0:1.9.2.7-2.el5 *
Firefox Ubuntu dapper *
Firefox Ubuntu devel *
Firefox Ubuntu hardy *
Firefox Ubuntu lucid *
Firefox-3.0 Ubuntu hardy *
Firefox-3.0 Ubuntu jaunty *
Firefox-3.5 Ubuntu jaunty *
Firefox-3.5 Ubuntu karmic *
Xulrunner-1.9.2 Ubuntu devel *
Xulrunner-1.9.2 Ubuntu hardy *
Xulrunner-1.9.2 Ubuntu jaunty *
Xulrunner-1.9.2 Ubuntu karmic *
Xulrunner-1.9.2 Ubuntu lucid *

Potential Mitigations

References