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MFSA2011-42 Thunderbird: Potentially exploitable crash in the YARR regular expression library (CVE-2011-3232)

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MFSA2011-42 Thunderbird: Potentially exploitable crash in the YARR regular expression library (CVE-2011-3232)

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
09/28/2011
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/22/2012
Modified
02/13/2015

Description

YARR, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 7.0, Thunderbird before 7.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.4, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted JavaScript.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-thunderbird-upgrade-7_0

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