From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Tue Apr 28 2009 - 18:30:04 CDT

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TITLE:
Mozilla Firefox "nsTextFrame::ClearTextRun()" Memory Corruption

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA34866

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/34866/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Mozilla Firefox, which can be
exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise a user's
system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when calling the
"nsTextFrame::ClearTextRun()" function and can be exploited to
corrupt memory.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerability is reported in version 3.0.9.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 3.0.10.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-23.html

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