PT-2010-3608 · Mozilla+1 · Firefox+2

Published 2010-05-20 · Updated 2018-10-10 · CVE-2010-1987

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, out-of-bounds read, and application crash. This is achieved through JavaScript code that appends long strings to the content of a P element and performs certain string concatenation and substring operations. The problem is related to the DoubleWideCharMappedString class in USP10.dll and the gfxWindowsFontGroup::GetUnderlineOffset function in xul.dll.

Recommendations For Mozilla Firefox version 3.6.3, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2010-1987

Affected Products

Firefox

Usp10.Dll

Xul.Dll

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-2010-1987 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/511329/100/0/threaded · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12013 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/58762 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/64790 · Note