Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird/SeaMonkey Browser Engine Memory Security Vulnerability

Release date:
Updated on: 2013-02-20

Affected Systems:
Mozilla Firefox & lt; 19.0
Mozilla Thunderbird <17.0.3
Mozilla SeaMonkey <2.16
Description:
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Bugtraq id: 58030
CVE (CAN) ID: CVE-2013-0784
 
Firefox is a very popular open-source WEB browser. SeaMonkey is an open-source Web browser, mail and newsgroup client, IRC session client, and HTML editor. Thunderbird is a mail client that supports IMAP, POP protocol, and HTML format.
 
In some cases, the browser engine of Firefox and other Mozilla products has a memory security problem, which can cause memory corruption and arbitrary code execution.
 
<* Source: Mozilla developers

Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi? CVE-2013-0784
Https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-21.html
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Suggestion:
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Vendor patch:
 
Mozilla
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Mozilla has released a Security Bulletin (mfsa2013-21) and patches for this:
Mfsa2013-21: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv: 19.0/rv: 17.0.3)
Link: https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-21.html