PT-2010-2021 · Mozilla · Firefox

Henrik Skupin + 1 · Published 2010-01-07 · Updated 2017-09-19 · CVE-2010-0220

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 3.5.7

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an application crash. This is achieved through a crafted web site that triggers memory consumption and an accompanying Low Memory alert dialog. The attack also triggers attempted removal of an observer from an empty observers array, specifically in the nsObserverList::FillObserverArray function.

Recommendations For versions prior to 3.5.7, update to version 3.5.7 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2010-0220

Affected Products

Firefox

References · 8

• 🔥 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=507114 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/51396f6c9f20 · Exploit
• http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=7897 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-0220 · Security Note
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:000 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.5.7/releasenotes · Patch
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8292 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/55550 · Note