CVE-2011-2378

N/A Unknown
Published: August 18, 2011 Modified: April 29, 2026
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Description

The appendChild function in Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.20, Thunderbird 3.x before 3.1.12, SeaMonkey 2.x, and possibly other products does not properly handle DOM objects, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors that lead to dereferencing of a "dangling pointer."

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00023.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00027.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2295
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2296
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2297
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:127
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-30.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
Vendor Advisory
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1164.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
Vendor Advisory
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1166.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=648065
Source: cve@mitre.org
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14163
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00023.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00027.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2295
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2296
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2297
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:127
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-30.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1164.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1166.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=648065
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14163
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

22 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score
N/A / 10.0
EPSS (Exploit Probability)
5.6%
92th percentile
Exploitation Status
Not in CISA KEV

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-94

Affected Vendors

mozilla

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