Exploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2010-3179. PoCs published by Alexander Miller.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit leverages a memory corruption vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey by writing a large buffer of controlled data to trigger arbitrary code execution. The PoC uses JavaScript to generate a malformed string that overflows memory, potentially allowing an attacker to overwrite EIP.
Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in the text-rendering functionality in Mozilla Firefox before 3.5.14 and 3.6.x before 3.6.11, Thunderbird before 3.0.9 and 3.1.x before 3.1.5, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.9 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via a long argument to the document.write method.
Exploits (1)
This exploit leverages a memory corruption vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey by writing a large buffer of controlled data to trigger arbitrary code execution. The PoC uses JavaScript to generate a malformed string that overflows memory, potentially allowing an attacker to overwrite EIP.