CVE-2010-3166 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferCWE-122 — Heap-based Buffer Overflow9 documents6 sources
Severity
9.3CRITICALNVD
EPSS
6.0%
top 9.34%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Mozilla FirefoxMozilla SeamonkeyMozilla Thunderbird
Timeline
PublishedSep 9
Latest updateMay 17

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the nsTextFrameUtils::TransformText function in Mozilla Firefox before 3.5.12 and 3.6.x before 3.6.9, Thunderbird before 3.0.7 and 3.1.x before 3.1.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.7 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a bidirectional text run.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/C:C/I:C/A:CExploitability: 8.6 | Impact: 10.0

Affected Packages3 packages

▶NVDmozilla/firefox3.5.11+87
▶NVDmozilla/seamonkey2.0.6+40
▶NVDmozilla/thunderbird3.0.6+67

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-v78f-cp57-fcpm: Heap-based buffer overflow in the nsTextFrameUtils::TransformText function in Mozilla Firefox before 3↗2022-05-17
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CVEList
CVE-2010-3166: Heap-based buffer overflow in the nsTextFrameUtils::TransformText function in Mozilla Firefox before 3↗2010-09-09
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📋Vendor Advisories

5
Ubuntu
Firefox and Xulrunner regression↗2010-09-16
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Ubuntu
Thunderbird regression↗2010-09-16
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Ubuntu
Thunderbird vulnerabilities↗2010-09-08
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Ubuntu
Firefox and Xulrunner vulnerabilities↗2010-09-08
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Red Hat
nsTextFrameUtils:: TransformText (MFSA 2010-53)↗2010-09-07
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2010-3166 Mozilla Heap buffer overflow in nsTextFrameUtils::TransformText (MFSA 2010-53)↗2010-09-03
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CVE-2010-3166 — Mozilla Firefox vulnerability | cvebase