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Mozilla Firefox and SeaMonkey mailto: URL Redirection Vulnerability

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6776

Mozilla Firefox before 3.5.9 and 3.6.x before 3.6.2 and SeaMonkey before 2.0.4 executes a mail application in situations where an IMG element has a SRC attribute that is a redirect to a mailto: URL which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive application launches) via an HTML document with many images.

Family:
windows
Status:
ACCEPTED
Platform(s):
  • Microsoft Windows XP
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008
  • Microsoft Windows 2000
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003
  • Microsoft Windows 7
  • Microsoft Windows Vista
Class:
vulnerability
Reference(s):
  • CVE-2010-0181
Product(s):
  • Mozilla SeaMonkey
  • Mozilla Firefox