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."
Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2295-1 iceape security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2296-1 iceweasel security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2297-1 icedove security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2011-2367 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."
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-1184-1 Firefox and Xulrunner vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-1185-1 Thunderbird vulnerabilities
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T23:00:33.549Z

Reserved: 2011-06-03T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2011-2378

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2011-08-18T18:55:01.477

Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Link: CVE-2011-2378

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Critical

Publid Date: 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2011-2378 - Bugzilla

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