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Mozilla: Multiple security flaws fixed in v3.6.25 (Mac) and v9

Published Dec 21, 2011

Description

The SVG implementation in Mozilla Firefox 8.0, Thunderbird 8.0, and SeaMonkey 2.5 does not properly interact with DOMAttrModified event handlers, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds memory access) or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors involving removal of SVG elements.

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Remediation

Red Hat statement

This issue did not affect the version of firefox and thunderbird packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5 and 6. This issue did not affect the version of seamonkey package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Dec 21, 2011
Updated Aug 6, 2024
Reserved Sep 23, 2011
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Critical
Public date Dec 20, 2011