CVE-2011-2997

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-09-29 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox 6, Thunderbird before 7.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.4 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 6.0
Mozilla Seamonkey: through 2.3.3; 1.0, 1.0-alpha, 1.0-beta, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3 (+60)
Mozilla Thunderbird: through 6.0.2; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+93)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-10/msg00002.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/46315
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:141
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:142
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-36.html
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552002
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=657198
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=658864
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=661567
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=664930
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=667011
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=667507

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