CVE-2011-2378

CriticalCVSS 10.0/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

The appendChild function in Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.20, Thunderbird 3.x before 3.1.12, SeaMonkey 2.x, and possibly other products does not properly handle DOM objects, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors that lead to dereferencing of a "dangling pointer."

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 10.0/10AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weakness enumeration

CWE-94

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Aug 18, 2011
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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