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HistoryMay 10, 2011 - 12:00 a.m.

Mozilla Firefox OBJECT mChannel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

2011-05-1000:00:00
regenrecht
www.zerodayinitiative.com
24

EPSS

0.969

Percentile

99.7%

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 within the OnChannelRedirect method. When an OBJECT element has no mChannel assigned, it is possible to call the |OnChannelRedirect| method, setting a nearly arbitrary object as the channel in use. |mChannel| will become a dangling pointer, allowing an attacker to execute arbitrary code under the context of the user running the browser.