Saturday, October 30, 2010

Firefox: buffer-overflow vulnerability

Users of Firefox please be advised of a buffer-overflow vulnerability that has been identified.

To view this vulnerability, possible remedies, and others please check out the Security Advisories at Critical Watch (http://criticalwatch.com/support/security-advisories.aspx)

Amplify’d from www.criticalwatch.com
USN-1011-1: [USN-1011-1] Firefox buffer-overflow vulnerability
Details follow:



Morten Krakvik discovered a heap-based buffer overflow in Firefox. If a

user were tricked into navigating to a malicious site, an attacker could

cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code as the user

invoking the program.Read more at www.criticalwatch.com
 

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