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CVE-2011-1179

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2011-1179 describes a denial-of-service and potential arbitrary code execution vulnerability in the SPICE Firefox plug-in (spice-xpi) versions 2.4, 2.3, and 2.2, affecting Mozilla Firefox and Red Hat products. The vulnerability stems from multiple uses of an uninitialized pointer within plugin/nsScriptablePeer.cpp and plugin/plugin.cpp. With a CVSS score of 5.1, it has a network attack vector and high attack complexity, potentially leading to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:spice-xpi:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:spice-xpi:2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:spice-xpi:2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.1MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
4.9
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.89%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
89.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0389 is in the 85th percentile among its peer group of 19,956 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: spice-xpi-0:2.2-2.3.el5_6.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: spice-xpi-0:2.4-1.el6_0.2
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: spice-xpi

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2011-1179Moderate

spice-xpi: unitialized pointer writes possible when getting plugin properties

Apr 7, 2011

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / attachment.cgi
Patch
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Patch
secunia.com / advisories/44060
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/66777
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2011-0426.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2011-0427.html
securityfocus.com / bid/47269
securitytracker.com / id
vupen.com / english/advisories/2011/0899
Vendor Advisory