Arbitrary Code Execution via Garbage Collection Interaction in Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey

Arbitrary Code Execution via Garbage Collection Interaction in Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey

CVE-2013-0745 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

The AutoWrapperChanger class in Mozilla Firefox before 18.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.2, Thunderbird before 17.0.2, Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.2, and SeaMonkey before 2.15 does not properly interact with garbage collection, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML document referencing JavaScript objects.

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