CVE-2010-2755

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.1% 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-399

Description

layout/generic/nsObjectFrame.cpp in Mozilla Firefox 3.6.7 does not properly free memory in the parameter array of a plugin instance, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML document, related to the DATA and SRC attributes of an OBJECT element. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2010-1214.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 3.6.7

References

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-48.html
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=575836
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11961
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-48.html
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=575836
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11961

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