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CVE-2010-2760

• 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: 2010-09-09 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsTreeSelection function in Mozilla Firefox before 3.5.12 and 3.6.x before 3.6.9, Thunderbird before 3.0.7 and 3.1.x before 3.1.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.7 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving a XUL tree selection, related to a "dangling pointer vulnerability." NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2010-2753.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: through 3.5.11; 3.6, 3.6.2, 3.6.3, 3.6.4, 3.6.6, 3.6.7 (+84)
• Mozilla Seamonkey: through 2.0.6; 1.0, 1.0-alpha, 1.0-beta, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3 (+45)
• Mozilla Thunderbird: through 3.0.6; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+62)

References

• http://blogs.sun.com/security/entry/multiple_vulnerabilities_in_mozilla_firefox
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/047282.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00002.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42867
• http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100110210
• http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100112690
• http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2106
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:173
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-54.html
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2323
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0061
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=585815

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