Bug 741903 (CVE-2011-2996)

Summary:	CVE-2011-2996 Mozilla: crash in plugin API (MFSA 2011-36)
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	bressers, caillon, gecko-bugs-nobody, stransky
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-09-28 12:40:06 UTC

Josh Aas reported a potential crash in the plugin API that affected Firefox 3.6 only.

References:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=555018
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-36.html

Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2011-09-28 15:48:03 UTC

This flaw doesn't affect us. It's a Mac OSX specific flaw.