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Mozilla Firefox DHTML Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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Mozilla Firefox DHTML Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
04/14/2006
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/07/2006
Modified
02/13/2015

Description

Certain versions of Mozilla Firefox contain a flaw in the logic that handles DHTML. As a result, a malicious web page can corrupt the browser's memory and execute arbitrary code under the privileges of the browser process.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-1_5_0_2
  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-latest

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