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HistoryMar 30, 2009 - 12:00 a.m.

Mozilla Firefox XUL _moveToEdgeShift() Memory Corruption Vulnerability

2009-03-3000:00:00
Nils
www.zerodayinitiative.com
19

EPSS

0.908

Percentile

98.9%

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Mozilla Firefox. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page. The specific flaw exists in the XUL tree method _moveToEdgeShift(). In some cases this call will trigger garbage collection routines on in use objects which will result in a future call to a dangling pointer. This can be leveraged to execute arbitrary code under the context of the current user.