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Vulnerability details: VCID-hcjp-8k4f-fuhf
Vulnerability ID VCID-hcjp-8k4f-fuhf
Aliases CVE-2010-3179
Summary Security researcher Alexander Miller reported that passing an excessively long string to document.write could cause text rendering routines to end up in an inconsistent state with sections of stack memory being overwritten with the string data. An attacker could use this flaw to crash a victim's browser and potentially run arbitrary code on their computer.
Status Published
Exploitability None
Weighted Severity None
Risk None
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (0)
There are no known CWE.
System Score Found at
epss 0.22551 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2010-3179
generic_textual critical https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2010-65
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2010-3179.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2010-3179
642277 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642277
CVE-2010-3179 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-3179
CVE-2010-3179;OSVDB-68850 Exploit https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb/-/blob/main/exploits/linux/remote/34881.html
CVE-2010-3179;OSVDB-68850 Exploit https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44247/info
GLSA-201301-01 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201301-01
mfsa2010-65 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2010-65
RHSA-2010:0782 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010:0782
RHSA-2010:0861 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010:0861
RHSA-2010:0896 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010:0896
USN-997-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/997-1/
USN-998-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/998-1/
Data source Exploit-DB
Date added Oct. 19, 2010
Description Mozilla Firefox SeaMonkey 3.6.10 / Thunderbird 3.1.4 - 'document.write' Memory Corruption
Ransomware campaign use Known
Source publication date Oct. 19, 2010
Exploit type remote
Platform linux
Source update date Oct. 5, 2014
Source URL https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44247/info
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.95941
EPSS Score 0.22551
Published At May 29, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-05-29T08:27:15.495279+00:00 Mozilla Importer Import https://github.com/mozilla/foundation-security-advisories/blob/master/announce/2010/mfsa2010-65.md 38.6.0