CVE-2010-0176
Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.19, 3.5.x before 3.5.9, and 3.6.x before 3.6.2; Thunderbird before 3.0.4; and SeaMonkey before 2.0.4 do not properly manage reference counts for option elements in a XUL tree optgroup, which might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors that trigger access to deleted elements, related to a "dangling pointer vulnerability."
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 9.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-399
- EPSS score
- 5.2% (92th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2010-0207)
- Published
- April 5, 2010
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2010-0207 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
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References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038367.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038378.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-April/038406.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38566(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/39117(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/39136(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/39204(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/39240(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/39242(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/39243(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/39308
- http://secunia.com/advisories/39397
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1023776
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1023782
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-921-1
- http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2027
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:070
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-18.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0332.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0333.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0748(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0764(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0765(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0781
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0790
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0849
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=538308
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/57392
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11052
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7222
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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