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Credit:
The information has been provided by regenrecht.
The original article can be found at: http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-10-131/
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Vulnerable Systems:
Mozilla Firefox 3.6.x
User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the implementation of XUL element's "selection" attribute. There is an integer overflow when calculating the bounds of a new selection range. When calling adjustSelection on this manged range both ranges are deleted leaving a dangling reference. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code under the context of the browser.
Patch Availability:
Mozilla Firefox has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at:
Http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-40.html
CVE Information:
CVE-2010-2753
Disclosure Timeline:
2010-06-09 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
2010-07-20 - Coordinated public release of advisory
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