CVE-2010-0176

Mozilla Dangling pointer vulnerability in nsTreeContentView

Published Apr 5, 2010 CVSS 2.0 · 9.3 Critical EPSS 5.2% KEV · Not listed
Description
Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.19, 3.5.x before 3.5.9, and 3.6.x before 3.6.2; Thunderbird before 3.0.4; and SeaMonkey before 2.0.4 do not properly manage reference counts for option elements in a XUL tree optgroup, which might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors that trigger access to deleted elements, related to a "dangling pointer vulnerability."

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2027-1 New xulrunner packages fix several vulnerabilities
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2010-0207 Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.19, 3.5.x before 3.5.9, and 3.6.x before 3.6.2; Thunderbird before 3.0.4; and SeaMonkey before 2.0.4 do not properly manage reference counts for option elements in a XUL tree optgroup, which might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors that trigger access to deleted elements, related to a "dangling pointer vulnerability."
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-920-1 Firefox 3.0 and Xulrunner vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-921-1 Firefox 3.5 and Xulrunner vulnerabilities
References
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http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038367.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038378.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038406.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/38566 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/39117 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/39136 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/39204 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/39240 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/39242 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/39243 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/39308 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/39397 cve-icon cve-icon
http://securitytracker.com/id?1023776 cve-icon cve-icon
http://securitytracker.com/id?1023782 cve-icon cve-icon
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-921-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2027 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:070 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-18.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0332.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0333.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0748 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0764 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0765 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0781 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0790 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0849 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=538308 cve-icon cve-icon
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/57392 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-0176 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11052 cve-icon cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7222 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-0176 cve-icon
History

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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
Apr 5, 2010, 5:30 PM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 11:15 PM
Severity
Critical
Public date
Mar 30, 2010, 12:00 AM