CVE-2010-1028

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-03-19 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Integer overflow in the decompression functionality in the Web Open Fonts Format (WOFF) decoder in Mozilla Firefox 3.6 before 3.6.2 and 3.7 before 3.7 alpha 3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted WOFF file that triggers a buffer overflow, as demonstrated by the vd_ff module in VulnDisco 9.0.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 3.6, 3.6-a1_pre, 3.6.1, 3.7-a1_pre, 3.7-alpha1, 3.7-alpha2

References

http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2010/02/22/secunia-advisory-sa38608/
http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2010/03/18/update-on-secunia-advisory-sa38608/
http://blog.psi2.de/en/2010/02/20/going-commercial-with-firefox-vulnerabilities/
http://secunia.com/advisories/38608
http://secunia.com/community/forum/thread/show/3592
http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Zero-day-exploit-for-Firefox-3-6-936124.html
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/964549
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-08.html
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552216
https://forum.immunityinc.com/board/thread/1161/vulndisco-9-0/
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7969
http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2010/02/22/secunia-advisory-sa38608/

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