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MFSA2009-08 Firefox: Mozilla Firefox XUL Linked Clones Double Free Vulnerability (CVE-2009-0775)

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MFSA2009-08 Firefox: Mozilla Firefox XUL Linked Clones Double Free Vulnerability (CVE-2009-0775)

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
03/04/2009
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/14/2012
Modified
02/13/2015

Description

Double free vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.7, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.21, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.15 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via "cloned XUL DOM elements which were linked as a parent and child," which are not properly handled during garbage collection.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-3_0_7

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