PT-2010-3727 · Mozilla · Firefox

Published 2010-06-01 · Updated 2018-10-10 · CVE-2010-2117

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions 3.0.19, 3.5.x, and 3.6.x

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service due to resource consumption. This can be achieved through JavaScript code that contains an infinite loop, which creates IFRAME elements for invalid news:// or nntp:// URIs.

Recommendations For Mozilla Firefox versions 3.0.19, 3.5.x, and 3.6.x, consider disabling JavaScript execution of infinite loops that create IFRAME elements for invalid URIs as a temporary workaround until a patch is available. 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-2010-2117

Affected Products

Firefox

References · 4

• 🔥 http://websecurity.com.ua/4238 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-2117 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/511509/100/0/threaded · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11190 · Note