Friday, October 29, 2010

Mozilla Firefox: race condition Vulnerability

Users of Mozilla Firefox please be advised of a race condition 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
RHSA-2010:0808-01: [RHSA-2010:0808-01] firefox race condition
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Description:

Mozilla Firefox is an open source web browser.

A race condition flaw was found in the way Firefox handled Document Object
Model (DOM) element properties. A web page containing malicious content
could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with
the privileges of the user running Firefox. (CVE-2010-3765)Read more at www.criticalwatch.com
 

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