CVE-2010-0160

Severity

99%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

165%

The Web Worker functionality in Mozilla Firefox 3.0.x before 3.0.18 and 3.5.x before 3.5.8, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.3, does not properly handle array data types for posted messages, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

The Web Worker functionality in Mozilla Firefox 3.0.x before 3.0.18 and 3.5.x before 3.5.8, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.3, does not properly handle array data types for posted messages, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 9.9. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

Type

Mozilla

First reported 15 years ago

2010-02-22 13:00:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-10 19:51:00

Affected Software

Mozilla Firefox 3.0

3.0

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1

3.0.1

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.2

3.0.2

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.3

3.0.3

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.4

3.0.4

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5

3.0.5

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.6

3.0.6

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.7

3.0.7

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.8

3.0.8

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.9

3.0.9

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.10

3.0.10

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.11

3.0.11

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.12

3.0.12

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.13

3.0.13

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.14

3.0.14

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.15

3.0.15

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.16

3.0.16

Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla Firefox 3.5

3.5

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.1

3.5.1

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.2

3.5.2

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.3

3.5.3

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.4

3.5.4

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.5

3.5.5

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.6

3.5.6

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.7

3.5.7

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.0

1.0

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.0 alpha

1.0

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.0 beta

1.0

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.0.1

1.0.1

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.0.2

1.0.2

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.0.3

1.0.3

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.0.4

1.0.4

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.0.5

1.0.5

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.0.6

1.0.6

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.0.7

1.0.7

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.0.8

1.0.8

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.0.9

1.0.9

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.1

1.1

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.1 alpha

1.1

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.1 beta

1.1

Mozilla Seamonkey 1.1.1

1.1.1

Mozilla Seamonkey 1.1.2

1.1.2

Mozilla Seamonkey 1.1.3

1.1.3

Mozilla Seamonkey 1.1.4

1.1.4

Mozilla Seamonkey 1.1.5

1.1.5

Mozilla Seamonkey 1.1.6

1.1.6

Mozilla Seamonkey 1.1.7

1.1.7

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.1.8

1.1.8

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.1.9

1.1.9

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.1.10

1.1.10

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.1.11

1.1.11

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.1.12

1.1.12

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.1.13

1.1.13

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.1.14

1.1.14

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.1.15

1.1.15

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.1.16

1.1.16

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.1.17

1.1.17

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.0

2.0

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.0 Alpha 1

2.0

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.0 Alpha 2

2.0

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.0 Alpha 3

2.0

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.0 Beta 1

2.0

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.0 Beta 2

2.0

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.0 RC1

2.0

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.0 RC2

2.0

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.0.1

2.0.1

Mozilla SeaMonkey

References

FEDORA-2010-1932

FEDORA-2010-1936

FEDORA-2010-1727

SUSE-SA:2010:015

37242

Vendor Advisory

38847

DSA-1999

MDVSA-2010:042

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-02.html

Vendor Advisory

RHSA-2010:0112

20100402 ZDI-10-046: Mozilla Firefox Web Worker Array Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

USN-895-1

USN-896-1

ADV-2010-0405

Patch, Vendor Advisory

http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-10-046

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=531222

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=533000

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=534051

mozilla-webworkers-code-execution(56360)

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11166

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8465

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