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Mozilla Firefox Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA35798
Release Date: 2009-07-14
Last Update: 2009-07-15
Popularity: 15,307 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:Mozilla Firefox 3.5.x

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Description:
SBerry has discovered a vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when processing JavaScript code handling e.g. "font" HTML tags and can be exploited to cause a memory corruption.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 3.5. Other versions may also be affected.

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