CVE-2009-2462 Information

Description

The browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.12 and Thunderbird allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to (1) the frame chain and synchronous events (2) a SetMayHaveFrame assertion and nsCSSFrameConstructor::CreateFloatingLetterFrame (3) nsCSSFrameConstructor::ConstructFrame (4) the child list and initial reflow (5) GetLastSpecialSibling (6) nsFrameManager::GetPrimaryFrameFor and MathML (7) nsFrame::GetBoxAscent (8) nsCSSFrameConstructor::AdjustParentFrame (9) nsDOMOfflineResourceList and (10) nsContentUtils::ComparePosition.

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-07/msg00005.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-08/msg00002.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1162.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1163.html http://secunia.com/advisories/35914 http://secunia.com/advisories/35943 http://secunia.com/advisories/35944 http://secunia.com/advisories/35947 http://secunia.com/advisories/36005 http://secunia.com/advisories/36145 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-265068-1 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1020800.1-1 http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-34.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0153.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0154.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35758 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1972 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2152 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0650 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=413085 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=442227 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=445177 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=461861 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=463350 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=466763 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=468211 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=472668 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=472950 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=491134 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10906 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01032.html