Record summary

CVE-2010-0166 has a selected CVSS score of 5.1; EIP currently links 1 catalogued exploit.

Description

The gfxTextRun::SanitizeGlyphRuns function in gfx/thebes/src/gfxFont.cpp in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox 3.6 before 3.6.2 on Mac OS X, when the Core Text API is used, does not properly perform certain deletions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an HTML document containing invisible Unicode characters, as demonstrated by the U+FEFF, U+FFF9, U+FFFA, and U+FFFB characters.

Description source: CVE List

Exploitation context

Available material

Catalogued exploits
1

Proofs of concept

1

Catalogued exploits

ExploitDBMozilla Firefox 3.6 - 'gfxTextRun::SanitizeGlyphRuns()' Remote Memory CorruptionExploitDB exploitby Jesse RudermanNot analyzed1 file
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