CVE-2011-3654

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-11-09 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 8.0 and Thunderbird before 8.0 does not properly handle links from SVG mpath elements to non-SVG elements, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 7.0.1; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+144)
Mozilla Thunderbird: through 7.0.1; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+94)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/49055
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-48.html
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=694953
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A13830
http://secunia.com/advisories/49055
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-48.html
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=694953
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A13830

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