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>> Mozilla Firefox JavaScript Handling Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Title : Mozilla Firefox JavaScript Handling Memory Corruption Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2009-1868
CVE ID : CVE-2009-2477 - CVE-2009-2478
CWE ID : VUPEN VNS Only
CVSS V2 : VUPEN VNS Only
Rated as : Critical 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2009-07-14



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A vulnerability has been identified in Mozilla Firefox, which could be exploited by remote attackers to compromise an affected system. This issue is caused by a memory corruption error when processing certain JavaScript code, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into visiting a specially crafted web page.

Affected Products

Mozilla Firefox version 3.5

Solution

Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox version 3.5.1 :
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1868
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-41.html
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=503286

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Simon Berry-Byrne.

ChangeLog

2009-07-14 : Initial release
2009-07-16 : Updated Solution

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