Mozilla developers and community members identified and fixed several stability bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these crashes showed 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. Yongqian Li reported that a document can be constructed whose internal representation contains double copies of certain elements leading to potentially unsafe memory conditions. John Senchak also separately reported a double frame construction bug which could also be used to crash the browser and run arbitrary code.
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Via RHSA-2009:1162 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1162.html
MITRE's CVE-2009-2465 entry: Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.12 and Thunderbird allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or execute arbitrary code via vectors involving double frame construction, related to (1) nsHTMLContentSink.cpp, (2) nsXMLContentSink.cpp, and (3) nsPresShell.cpp, and the nsSubDocumentFrame::Reflow function. References: ---------- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2465 http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-34.html https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=482578 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=489050 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35758 http://secunia.com/advisories/35914 http://secunia.com/advisories/35943 http://secunia.com/advisories/35944 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1972
devhelp-0.22-10.fc10, blam-1.8.5-12.fc10, gecko-sharp2-0.13-10.fc10, galeon-2.0.7-12.fc10, gnome-python2-extras-2.19.1-32.fc10, evolution-rss-0.1.2-8.fc10, gnome-web-photo-0.3-20.fc10, mozvoikko-0.9.5-12.fc10, google-gadgets-0.10.5-8.fc10, kazehakase-0.5.6-4.fc10.4, mugshot-1.2.2-11.fc10, yelp-2.24.0-11.fc10, ruby-gnome2-0.19.0-3.fc10.1, Miro-2.0.5-2.fc10, epiphany-2.24.3-8.fc10, pcmanx-gtk2-0.3.8-11.fc10, xulrunner-1.9.0.12-1.fc10, firefox-3.0.12-1.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.