CVE-2010-1212

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-07-30 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

js/src/jstracer.cpp in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox 3.6.x before 3.6.7 and Thunderbird 3.1.x before 3.1.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to (1) propagation of deep aborts in the TraceRecorder::record_JSOP_BINDNAME function, (2) depth handling in the TraceRecorder::record_JSOP_GETELEM function, and (3) tracing of out-of-range arguments in the TraceRecorder::record_JSOP_ARGSUB function.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 3.6.1, 3.6.2, 3.6.3, 3.6.4, 3.6.6
Mozilla Thunderbird: 3.1

References

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-34.html
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=530955
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=558618
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=568855
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11771
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-34.html
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=530955
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=558618
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=568855
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11771

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