PT-2010-3607 · Mozilla · Firefox

Published 2010-05-20 · Updated 2018-10-10 · CVE-2010-1986

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 version 3.6.3

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in memory consumption and application crash, via JavaScript code. This code creates multiple arrays containing elements with long string values and appends long strings to the content of a P element. The problem is related to the gfxWindowsFontGroup::MakeTextRun function in xul.dll.

Recommendations For Mozilla Firefox version 3.6.3, consider disabling JavaScript as a temporary workaround until a patch is available. Restrict access to untrusted web content to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2010-1986

Affected Products

Firefox

References · 7

• 🔥 http://x90c.org/advisories/firefox_3.6.3_crash_advisory.txt · Exploit
• 🔥 http://exploit-db.com/exploits/12678 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-1986 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/511329/100/0/threaded · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12433 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/64791 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/58761 · Note