CVE-2011-3659

Use-after-free vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.26 and 4.x through 9.0, Thunderbird before 3.1.18 and 5.0 through 9.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.7 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors related to incorrect AttributeChildRemoved notifications that affect access to removed nsDOMAttribute child nodes.

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 Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory “belongs” to the code that operates on the new pointer.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

Potential Mitigations

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-02/msg00003.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-02/msg00007.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-02/msg00011.html
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:013
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-04.html
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=708198
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14697
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-02/msg00003.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-02/msg00007.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-02/msg00011.html
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:013
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-04.html
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=708198
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14697