Detections
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Mozilla Firefox 10.x < 10.0.1 Memory Corruption
high Log Correlation Engine Plugin ID 801298
Synopsis
The remote host has a web browser installed that is affected by a memory corruption vulnerability.Description
Versions of Firefox 10.x earlier than 10.0.1 are potentially affected by a memory corruption vulnerability. A use-after-free error exists in the method 'nxXBLDocumentInfo::ReadPrototypeBindings' and XBL bindings are not properly removed from a hash table in the event of failure. Clean up processes may then attempt to use this data and cause application crashes. These application crashes are potentially exploitable.Solution
Upgrade to Firefox 10.0.1 or later.See Also
http://.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-10.html
http://.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox.html#firefox10.0.1
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 801298
Family: Web Clients
Published: 2/20/2012
Nessus ID: 57919
Vulnerability Information
Patch Publication Date: 2/10/2012
Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/10/2012
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2012-0452
BID: 51975