CVE-2010-2770 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2010-2770?

CVE-2010-2770 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 9 Sep 2010. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Mozilla Firefox before 3.5.12 and 3.6.x before 3.6.9, Thunderbird before 3.0.7 and 3.1.x before 3.1.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.7 on Mac OS X allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted font in a data: URL.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-2770?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Seamonkey, Mozilla Thunderbird.

How do I fix CVE-2010-2770?

No fix has been published for CVE-2010-2770 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2010-2770 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-2770 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2022-26485 Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free Exploited High 8.8
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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-9cr6-wqgc-hv29.