A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox 27.0. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is the function window.open of the file nsGlobalWindow.cpp of the component WebIDL. The manipulation leads to code injection.
This vulnerability is known as CVE-2014-1510. The attack can be launched remotely. Furthermore, there is an exploit available.
It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.
A vulnerability, which was classified as very critical, was found in Samba up to 3.2.12. Affected is an unknown function. The manipulation leads to format string.
This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2009-1886. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. Furthermore, there is an exploit available.
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