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HistoryJun 23, 2010 - 12:00 a.m.

Mozilla Firefox XSLT Sort Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

2010-06-2300:00:00
Martin Barbella
www.zerodayinitiative.com
32

EPSS

0.793

Percentile

98.3%

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 or otherwise render a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within a particular XSLT transformation when applied to an XML document. If a large number of elements have this transformation applied to them, the application will misallocate a buffer. Upon usage of this buffer the application will copy more data than allocated thus causing an overflow. This can lead to code execution under the context of the application.