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MFSA2011-54 SeaMonkey: Potentially exploitable crash in the YARR regular expression library (CVE-2011-3661)

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MFSA2011-54 SeaMonkey: Potentially exploitable crash in the YARR regular expression library (CVE-2011-3661)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/20/2011
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/03/2012
Modified
02/13/2015

Description

YARR, as used in Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 8.0, Thunderbird 5.0 through 8.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.6, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted JavaScript.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-seamonkey-upgrade-2_6_0

References

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