CVE-2011-3232

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-09-29 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

YARR, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 7.0, Thunderbird before 7.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.4, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted JavaScript.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 3.6.22; through 6.0; 3.6, 3.6.2, 3.6.3, 3.6.4, 3.6.6, 3.6.7 (+29)
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.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2011//Oct/msg00000.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2011//Oct/msg00001.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2011//Oct/msg00002.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2011//Oct/msg00004.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-10/msg00002.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/46315
http://secunia.com/advisories/49055
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4981
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4999
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5000
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5001
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:141

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