Mozilla Firefox Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Last Update Date:
23 Apr 2015
Release Date:
22 Apr 2015
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RISK: High Risk
TYPE: Clients - Browsers
A vulnerability was identified in Mozilla Firefox. A remote user can cause arbitrary code to be executed on the target user's system.
A remote user can create specially crafted HTML that, when loaded by the target user, will trigger a race condition when a plugin fails to initialize, which may lead to a memory corruption error in AsyncPaintWaitEvent::AsyncPaintWaitEvent() and arbitrary code execution on the target system.
Impact
- Remote Code Execution
System / Technologies affected
- Versions prior to 37.0.2
Solutions
Before installation of the software, please visit the software manufacturer web-site for more details.
- The vendor has issued a fix (37.0.2).
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