CVE-2010-0166

Published Mar 25, 2010 CVSS 2.0 · 5.1 Medium EPSS 6.9% KEV · Not listed
Description
The gfxTextRun::SanitizeGlyphRuns function in gfx/thebes/src/gfxFont.cpp in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox 3.6 before 3.6.2 on Mac OS X, when the Core Text API is used, does not properly perform certain deletions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an HTML document containing invisible Unicode characters, as demonstrated by the U+FEFF, U+FFF9, U+FFFA, and U+FFFB characters.

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 7, 2024, 12:37 AM
Reserved
Jan 6, 2010, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Mar 25, 2010, 9:00 PM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 11:15 PM