CVE - CVE-2010-1986

CVE-ID
CVE-2010-1986	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
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.
References
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BUGTRAQ:20100518 Firefox 3.6.3 (latest) <= memory exhaustion crash vulnerabilities URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511329/100/0/threaded EXPLOIT-DB:12678 URL:http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/12678 MISC:http://www.x90c.org/advisories/firefox_3.6.3_crash_advisory.txt OSVDB:64791 URL:~~http://www.osvdb.org/64791~~ (Obsolete source) OVAL:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12433 URL:https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12433 XF:firefox-javascriptcode-dos(58761) URL:https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/58761
Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20100520	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20100520)
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Proposed (Legacy)
N/A
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