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HistorySep 03, 2014 - 12:00 a.m.

Mozilla Firefox DirectionalityUtils Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

2014-09-0300:00:00
regenrecht
www.zerodayinitiative.com
22

EPSS

0.12

Percentile

95.5%

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 bi-directional unicode text. The issue lies in the failure to properly handle text that has its bi-directional character type changed. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code under the context of the current process.