CVE-2010-1121

N/A Unknown

Published: March 25, 2010 Modified: April 29, 2026

Description

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.x before 3.6.3 does not properly manage the scopes of DOM nodes that are moved from one document to another, which allows remote attackers to conduct use-after-free attacks and execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors involving improper interaction with garbage collection, as demonstrated by Nils during a Pwn2Own competition at CanSecWest 2010.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2010/02/15/pwn2own-2010

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/043369.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/043405.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-07/msg00005.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20001126-245.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/40323

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/40326

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/40401

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/40481

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100091069

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://twitter.com/thezdi/statuses/11005277222

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-930-1

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-25.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0500.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0501.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1023817

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-930-2

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1557

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1592

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1640

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1773

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=555109

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10924

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6844

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2010/02/15/pwn2own-2010