Vulnerability CVE-2006-2332
Published: 2006-05-11   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a web page with a large number of IMG elements in which the SRC attribute is a mailto URI. NOTE: another researcher found that the web page caused a temporary browser slowdown instead of a crash.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
Firefox 1.5.0.3 - DoS
p4 werterxyz gma...
12.05.2006

Type:

CWE-Other

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
2.6/10
2.9/10
4.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
High
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Mozilla -> Firefox 

 References:
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/876
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/433534/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/433568/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/433984/30/5010/threaded
http://www.securityview.org/confirmed-bug-in-firefox-1503.html
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