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CVE-2011-0084

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2011-08-18 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-94

Description

The SVGTextElement.getCharNumAtPosition function in Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.20, and 4.x through 5; Thunderbird 3.x before 3.1.12 and other versions before 6; SeaMonkey 2.x before 2.3; and possibly other products does not properly handle SVG text, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors that lead to a "dangling pointer."

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: through 3.6.19; 1.0, 1.0-preview_release, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4 (+118)
• Mozilla Seamonkey: 2.0, 2.0-alpha_1, 2.0-alpha_2, 2.0-alpha_3, 2.0-beta_1, 2.0-beta_2 (+19)
• Mozilla Thunderbird: 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.3, 3.0.4, 3.0.5 (+18)

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00023.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00027.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2295
• http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2296
• http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2297
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:127
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-29.html
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-30.html
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-31.html
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-33.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1164.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1166.html

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