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firefox -- multiple remote unspecified memory corruption vulnerabilities

Affected packages
firefox < 2.0.0.10,1
linux-firefox < 2.0.0.10
linux-seamonkey < 1.1.7
seamonkey < 1.1.7
flock < 1.0.2
linux-flock < 1.0.2
linux-firefox-devel < 3.0.a2007.12.12
linux-seamonkey-devel < 2.0.a2007.12.12

Details

VuXML ID f1f6f6da-9d2f-11dc-9114-001c2514716c
Discovery 2007-11-26
Entry 2007-11-27
Modified 2007-12-14

Mozilla Foundation reports:

The Firefox 2.0.0.10 update contains fixes for three bugs that improve the stability of the product. These crashes showed some evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances and we presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code.

References

Bugtraq ID 26593
CVE Name CVE-2007-5959