Definition

Denial of service vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox 4.0 and earlier through Javascript P element

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12433

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.3 on Windows XP SP3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and application crash) via JavaScript code that creates multiple arrays containing elements with long string values and then appends long strings to the content of a P element related to the gfxWindowsFontGroup::MakeTextRun function in xul.dll a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-1571.

Family:

windows

Status:

ACCEPTED

Platform(s):

Microsoft Windows 7
Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Microsoft Windows Vista

Class:

vulnerability

Reference(s):

CVE-2010-1986

Product(s):

Mozilla Firefox