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Mandriva Update for firefox MDVSA-2012:017 (firefox)

Information

Severity

Severity

High

Family

Family

Mandrake Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

7.5

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

12 years ago

Modified

Modified

5 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update for the 'firefox' package(s) announced via the referenced advisory.

Insight

Insight

Use-after-free vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox 10.x before 10.0.1, Thunderbird 10.x before 10.0.1, and SeaMonkey 2.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors that trigger failure of an nsXBLDocumentInfo::ReadPrototypeBindings function call, related to the cycle collector's access to a hash table containing a stale XBL binding (CVE-2012-0452).

Affected Software

Affected Software

firefox on Mandriva Linux 2011.0, Mandriva Linux 2010.1

Solution

Solution

Please Install the Updated Packages.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)