Uninitialized Pointer Vulnerability in SPICE Firefox Plug-in

Uninitialized Pointer Vulnerability in SPICE Firefox Plug-in

CVE-2011-1179 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:H/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

The SPICE Firefox plug-in (spice-xpi) 2.4, 2.3, 2.2, and possibly other versions allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to (1) plugin/nsScriptablePeer.cpp and (2) plugin/plugin.cpp, which trigger multiple uses of an uninitialized pointer.

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