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zdiVUPEN Security [ http://www.vupen.com ]ZDI-13-090
HistoryMay 29, 2013 - 12:00 a.m.

(Pwn2Own) Mozilla Firefox nsHTMLEditRules Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

2013-05-2900:00:00
VUPEN Security [ http://www.vupen.com ]
www.zerodayinitiative.com
19

EPSS

0.097

Percentile

94.8%

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 open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the handling of nsHTMLEditRules objects. By manipulating a document’s elements an attacker can force a dangling pointer to be reused after it has been freed. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code under the context of the current process.