CVE-2011-1179

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-04-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The SPICE Firefox plug-in (spice-xpi) 2.4, 2.3, 2.2, and possibly other versions allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to (1) plugin/nsScriptablePeer.cpp and (2) plugin/plugin.cpp, which trigger multiple uses of an uninitialized pointer.

Affected products

RedHat Spice-Xpi: 2.2, 2.3, 2.4

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/44060
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0426.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0427.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47269
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025304
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0899
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=487006&action=diff
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=689931
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66777
http://secunia.com/advisories/44060
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0426.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0427.html

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