CVE-2011-0073

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 70.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2011-05-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 3.5.19 and 3.6.x before 3.6.17, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.14, does not properly use nsTreeRange data structures, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors that lead to a "dangling pointer."

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 3.5.18; 3.6, 3.6.2, 3.6.3, 3.6.4, 3.6.6, 3.6.7 (+99)
Mozilla Seamonkey: through 2.0.13; 1.0, 1.0-alpha, 1.0-beta, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3 (+51)

References

http://downloads.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100134543
http://downloads.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100144158
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8310
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2227
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2228
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2235
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:079
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-13.html
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=630919
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14020
http://downloads.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100134543
http://downloads.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100144158

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