CVE-2010-3179

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 10.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2010-10-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the text-rendering functionality in Mozilla Firefox before 3.5.14 and 3.6.x before 3.6.11, Thunderbird before 3.0.9 and 3.1.x before 3.1.5, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.9 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via a long argument to the document.write method.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 3.5.13; 3.6, 3.6.2, 3.6.3, 3.6.4, 3.6.6, 3.6.7 (+88)
Mozilla Seamonkey: through 2.0.8; 1.0, 1.0-alpha, 1.0-beta, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3 (+46)
Mozilla Thunderbird: through 3.0.8; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+66)

References

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