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BillV

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Another FireFox Vuln

« on: March 26, 2009, 07:34:23 AM »

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Mozilla Firefox is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability.

An attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code within the context of the affected browser. Failed exploit attempt will result in a denial-of-service condition.

Article: FireFox Fix Due Next Week

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We... consider this a critical issue,

Exploit POC: SecurityFocus


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Re: Another FireFox Vuln

« Reply #1 on: March 26, 2009, 08:34:23 AM »

Tested it, definitely crashed my Firefox


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Re: Another FireFox Vuln

« Reply #2 on: March 29, 2009, 06:18:18 PM »

It has been fixed in 3.0.8.

Release notes:
Arbitrary code execution through XUL <tree> element
XSL Transformation vulnerability

http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox30.html#firefox3.0.8