CVE-2010-0183

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-06-24 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsCycleCollector::MarkRoots function in Mozilla Firefox 3.5.x before 3.5.10 and SeaMonkey before 2.0.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML document, related to an improper frame construction process for menus.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 3.5, 3.5.1, 3.5.2, 3.5.3, 3.5.4, 3.5.5 (+3)
Mozilla Seamonkey: through 2.0.4; 1.0, 1.0-alpha, 1.0-beta, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3 (+39)

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/043369.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/043405.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-07/msg00005.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/40326
http://secunia.com/advisories/40481
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-27.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/41050
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024138
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1551
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1592
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1773
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=557174

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