Check Point Reference: | CPAI-2010-422 |
Date Published: | 3 Oct 2010 |
Severity: | High |
Last Updated: | Sunday 18 January, 2015 |
Source: | |
Industry Reference: | CVE-2010-2752 |
Protection Provided by: |
Security Gateway |
Who is Vulnerable? | |
Vulnerability Description | Mozilla Firefox and Seamonkey are popular open source web browsers from Mozilla Foundation. An integer overflow vulnerability exists in Mozilla products including Firefox, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey. The vulnerability is due to a 16-bit integer value used in allocating the size of the array class to store CSS values that could overflow, resulting in too small a memory buffer being created. A remote attacker could exploit this issue by enticing target users to visit a crafted web page. Successful exploitation would result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the logged on user. |
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This protection's log will contain the following information:
Attack Name: Web Client Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information: Mozilla Products nsCSSValue array index integer overflow