CVE-2010-0166

CVSS V2 Medium 5.1 CVSS V3 None

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.

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2010-0166

Assigner
cve@mitre.org

Vulnerability Status
Modified

Published Version
2010-03-25T21:00:00

Last Modified Date
2017-09-19T01:30:15

Weakness Enumerations

CWE	URL
CWE-119	http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/119.html

CPE Configuration (Product)

CPE	Vulnerable	Operator
		AND
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.6:::::::*	1	OR
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x::::::::	0	OR

CVSS Version 2

Version
2.0

Vector String
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Access Vector
NETWORK

Access Compatibility
HIGH

Authentication
NONE

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL

Integrity Impact
PARTIAL

Availability Impact
PARTIAL

Base Score
5.1

Severity
MEDIUM

Exploitability Score
4.9

Impact Score
6.4

References

Reference URL	Reference Tags
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-11.html	Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38918
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=538065
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0692
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38943
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14182

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-0166
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-0166

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2022-05-10 08:35:09				Added to TrackCVE